The demented strutting of a dumb bird in the moonlight.

He's like a demented ferret up a wee drainpipe.

— Bill McLaren

In relating the circumstances which have led to my confinement within this refuge for the demented, I am aware that my present position will…

— H. P. Lovecraft

I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained; I stand and look at them long…

— Walt Whitman

There was a time in my demented youth When somehow I suspected that the truth About survival after death was known To every human…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I had a perfect confidence, still unshaken, in books. If you read enough you would reach the point of no return. You would cross…

— Helen Bevington

I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.

— Stephen Dorff

You can't just rattle it off like a demented parrot.

— Angie Sage

In truth, one of our company, the solemn warrior Ecthgow, was so demented from liquor that he was drunk while still upon his horse,…

— Michael Crichton

As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.

— Martin Luther

I think they’re having trouble adjusting to the emotions they have outside of their dreams. At any rate, they keep acting like demented teenagers…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps…

— Albert Camus

“The greatest of human actions will appear to be insignificant when we come to die, and especially those upon which men most pride themselves…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

… an outlaw gulch, a haven for draft resisters, struggling artists, and drug addicts…a camp for semi-demented adults… Venice is like the legendary Phoenix…

— Sara Davidson

My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.

— Poppy Z. Brite

Cathedrals are an unassailable witness to human passion. Using what demented calculation could an animal build such places? I think we know. An animal…

— Lionel Tiger