Madmen Quotes · Page 5

The dreamer is a madman quiescent, the madman is a dreamer in action.

— Frederic Henry Hedge

Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo

— Jean Cocteau

The real drug is to train like a madman, really like a madman.

— Aleksandr Karelin

Please, with the God talk. Hate to break it to you, but there is no God.

— Howard Stern

There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.

— Andre Maurois

He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.

— Vasily Grossman

The madman who knows that he is mad is close to sanity.

— Juan Ruiz de Alarcon

Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.

— Marcel Duchamp

Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he…

— Zhuangzi

I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were…

— Anonymous

Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes…

— William Shakespeare

As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is one thing more exasperating than a spouse who can cook and won't, and that's a spouse who can't cook and…

— Salvador Dali

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one…

— Thomas Sankara

A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,’ said he. ‘Few realize it. That is why there are so many…

— Rafael Sabatini

“In between darkness and light was the place that madmen ran to. It was the shadowed corner in fever dreams that woke…

— Joyce Chua

Psychiatry's a young science. Yesterday's madman may be tomorrow's genius. Beethoven and Van Gogh were both a bit loopy. In my view,…

— Clare Boylan

If I saw something once that I can't explain, that doesn't make them real. And if a trick of the dark gave…

— Charlie Huston

The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The biggest problem this world has today is not President [Barack] Obama with global warming, which is inconceivable, this is what he's…

— Donald Trump

It's very contradictory for a man to teach about the murder in corporate capitalism, to isolate and expose the murderes behind it,…

— Anonymous

Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen…

— John Maynard Keynes

The best thing about being an artist, instead of a madman or someone who writes letters to the editor, is that you…

— Anne Lamott

Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I am very active, ... I like to ride horses. I golf. I perform onstage. I am a madman onstage.

— Clay Walker

Not all novelists are power-hungry madman. Some are power-hungry madwomen.

— Pseudonymous Bosch

That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.

— Anonymous

On the pavement of my trampled soul the steps of madmen weave the prints of rude crude words.

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.

— Irving Stone

Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe.

— Carl Sagan

Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion.

— Benjamin Whichcote

Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.

— Herman Melville

Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.

— Neil Gaiman

Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted advisor.

— Terry Pratchett

The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans.

— Philip J. Davis

When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.

— Edgar Allan Poe

When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are.

— Robert Aickman

A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason

— Anonymous

Don't any of you realize there's only one life between that madman and the Presidency?

— Mark Hanna