Madmen Quotes

God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards.

— Marguerite de Navarre

The fellow is either a madman or a poet.

— Horace

“he eats with a tiny spoon and sings with madmen!”

— Thierry Cohen

It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman.

— Seneca the Younger

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

— Diogenes

Every madman considers everyone else a madman.

— Publilius Syrus

Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

— Anonymous

History is the autobiography of a madman.

— Alexander Herzen

“prophets and madmen use the same door to people's hearts, don't they?”

— Christian Moerk

The genius of art finds sanctuary among children and madmen to survive.That is who we are.

— Marilyn Manson

A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't.

— Ajahn Chah

And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm.

— Stephen Fry

Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out.

— Terry Pratchett

There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.

— John Dryden

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

— Emile M. Cioran

“What would life be like if they weren’t chasing madmen? Boring and staid, definitely.”

— J.T. Ellison

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

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

There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions.

— Michael Moorcock

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

— Joyce Chua

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

— Rafael Sabatini

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

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

— Thomas Sankara

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

— Anne Lamott

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

— Donald Trump

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

“People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another…

— Anonymous

It is not difficult to destroy Islam. Islam is the pumped up ego of a megalomaniac psychopath. Muhammad was a narcissist madman.…

— Ali Sina

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

And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the…

— Antonin Artaud

If there is inequality in nature, still there must be equal chance for all - or if greater for some and for…

— Swami Vivekananda

“Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover…

— Shakespeare William Shakespeare

“To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has…

— Marilynne Robinson

“One must have common sense, nothing is permanent, nothing endures. I have come to the conclusion that this place is run by…

— Agatha Christie

Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long…

— Philip K. Dick

I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to…

— Ray Bradbury

In the great depression, things could only be set right by causing the idle plant to work again . . . Roosevelt…

— Bertrand Russell