“From then on, my thesis hung over me like a curse, and with bloodshot eyes, I worked like a madman.” — Natsume Sōseki Copy Share Image
“A thousand years this city has stood, now at the whim of a madman it will fall.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
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
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
“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
“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
“Once you were in the hands of a Grand Vizier, you were dead. Grand Viziers were always scheming megalomaniacs. It was probably… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If a story seems too random, or perhaps too brilliant, for a "madman" to have conceived of it himself, then consider that… — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Put a man on the brink of the abyss and--in the unlikely event that he doesn't fall into it--he will become either… — Christos H. Papadimitriou Apostolos Doxiadis Copy Share Image
That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Besides, I'm not going to tell you my whole autobiography or anything. I'll just tell you about this madman stuff that happened… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The tapestry of my life was a ruin of unravelling threads. The brightest parts were a nonsensical madman's weaving. And now every… — Alexis Hall Copy Share Image
“One must have common sense, nothing is permanent, nothing endures. I have come to the conclusion that this place is run by… — Agatha Christie 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 change of character brought about by the uprush of collective forces is amazing. A gentle and reasonable being can be transformed… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“I am a ridiculous person. Now they call me a madman. That would be a promotion if it were not that I… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in… — Hilary Austen Copy Share Image
