Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the… — William Blake 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
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
I may be a lunatic, but then, wasn't my lunacy caused by a monster that lurks at the bottom of every human… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Would any thing but a madman complain of uncertainty? Uncertainty and expectation are joys of life; security is an insipid thing; and… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Somebody somewhere on this planet, back about 600 B.C. found some pieces of R6, and I don't know how they found it,… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
He kissed back, all the pages spread out around us like riddles waiting to be solved. Let them wait. Let my genes… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
We have to have armies! We have to have military power! We have to have police forces, whether it's police in a… — Billy Graham 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
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 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 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 Copy Share Image
Hawks favor war on the grounds that Saddam Hussein is reckless, tyrannical and instinctively aggressive, and that if he comes into possession… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen. — Jacobo Timerman Copy Share Image
We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Gilles Deleuze believed that every society needed a madman so we could feel better about ourselves. I do my best to fill… — George Singleton Copy Share Image
I could easily blast so much keef night and day I become a bouhali; a real-gone crazy, a holy untouchable madman unto… — Brion Gysin Copy Share Image
“or are the madmen those who insist on convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People think they know me from my songs. But my repertoire of songs is so wide-ranging that you'd have to be a… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the… — Euripides Copy Share Image
At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
No--when the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it, because if… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
Wherever the 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
To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
It is reported here that the King of Prussia has gone mad and has been locked up. There would be nothing bad… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
It is thus religion infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity and fanaticism: if he has a heated imagination it… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
As though God had turned away from the wise, and written his decrees, not in the mind of man but in the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
When anaesthetics were invented they were thought to be wicked as being an attempt to thwart God's will. Insanity was thought to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image