A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't. — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions. — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
“Oh, yes. I've no doubt in my own mind that we have been invited here by a madman-probably a dangerous homicidal lunatic.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Fuckin' wit a madman in a bad mood It's like fuckin' wit a mad dog that wasn't fed food” — DMX Copy Share Image
And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Things oughtn’t to be the way they are, altogether. But letting a madman burn down the barn is no way to improve… — Avram Davidson Copy Share Image
“Not a formidable presence, except in that madman way that drunks wield, that does-it-look-like-I-give-a-fuck-about-anything?” — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
“I had heard that madmen have unnatural strength. And as I knew I was a madman, at times anyhow, I resolved to… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The truth of life lies in the impulsiveness of matter. The mind of man has been poisoned by concepts. Do not ask… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Truly it seemed that a great people had gone mad; but it is a fact well known to alienists that you cannot… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
You think you're mad, too unstable. Kicking in chairs and knocking down tables. In a restaurant in a West End town call… — Pet Shop Boys Copy Share Image
“When next Tomas woke, he was in chains, the guest of a madman. He couldn’t have been more delighted. It gave him… — Eve Langlais Copy Share Image
Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The world has grown increasingly dangerous, with a nuclear madman in North Korea testing an ICBM a month, mullahs in Tehran plotting… — Robert C. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Wherever a choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In order to win over Paris and appear, in the eyes of all Europe, an absolute innovator, the most advanced of all,… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
“a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
“There's no difference between a madman and a professor...it should be clear to you in the way they dress, act and think.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
“His eyes had a merry glow to them—the look of a madman who knew he was mad, accepted his madness, and enjoyed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The dreamer is a madman quiescent, the madman is a dreamer in action. — Frederic Henry Hedge Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
“Why is it every time a madman's prayers are answered, a witch burns?” — J. Danielle Dorn Copy Share Image
“Ye carry war of a madman's making onto a foreign land. Ye'll wake more than the dogs.” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I am not up there by chance. I am there by choice. And I know the wire. And I know my limits.… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
There is only one difference between the madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
“He was a thread of gold running straight into the woof of a carpet woven by a madman.” — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously. — Kerry Thornley Copy Share Image
“The only difference between me and a madman is that he has the certification” — Josh Stern Copy Share Image
“Because,” announced Tristran, “every lover is in his heart a madman, and in his head a minstrel.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The worst madman is the one who fails to consider the possibility of somebody else being mad too.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!” — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
