Lunatic Quotes

206 quotes by 168 authors

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher. — Ambrose Bierce
For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear… — James Buchan
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. — Jean Cocteau
The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the intensity of his… — Osbert Sitwell
I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum — George Bernard Shaw
The lunatic fringe wags the underdog. — H. L. Mencken
Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant; impossible socially, but full scale; and it's the knockings and battering we… — Elizabeth Bowen
In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters… — Alvin Toffler
No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much… — Colin Greenwood
Jesus was either a Liar, a Lunatic, or Lord — C.S. Lewis
Sometimes Christian apologists say there are only three options to who Jesus was: a liar, a lunatic or the Lord. But there could be a… — Bart D. Ehrman
A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through… — George Orwell
It is called in our schools 'beastliness', and this is about the best name for it... should it become a habit it quickly destroys both… — Robert Baden-Powell
It is the haunted premises of longing that the true love song inhabits. It is a howl in the void, for love and for comfort… — Nick Cave
I may be a lunatic, but then, wasn't my lunacy caused by a monster that lurks at the bottom of every human mind? Those who… — RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
I wanted to play a good guy after doing this lunatic on The Sopranos for two years. And then they did the sequel to Bad… — Joe Pantoliano
I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum. — Werner Herzog
My father was my greatest inspiration. He was a lunatic. — Spike Milligan
I'm just some lunatic macaroni mushroom, is that it? — Joe Pesci
To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of,… — Lena Olin

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