Lunatics Quotes
79 quotes by 68 authors
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
— Jean Cocteau
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So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of energy, nerve-work, and materials in…
— Alan Watts
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The terrorist attacks were a tragedy for the people who died or were injured, and for their families and friends. For the rest of us,…
— Julie Burchill
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We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel…
— William James
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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
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We had a national tragedy this week, and the President of the United States and Sarah Palin both made speeches on the same day. Obama…
— Bill Maher
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Over the last 30 odd years, Democrats have moved to the right and the right has moved into the mental hospital. So what we have…
— Bill Maher
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Whether our feet are compressed in iron shoes, our faces hidden with veils and masks; whether yoked with cows to draw the plow through its…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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It can be a little difficult to command attention when surrounded by lunatics,
— Adam Foulds
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The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.
— David Lloyd George
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I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Take any country that has laws against hate crimes, inspiring hatred and genocide and so on. The first thing they would do is ban the…
— Noam Chomsky
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You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss…
— T.H. White
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Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.
— Oscar Wilde
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Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great…
— Cesare Lombroso
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No athletes talk to themselves like tennis players. Pitchers, golfers, goalkeepers, they mutter to themselves, but tennis players talk to themselves-and answer. Tennis players look…
— Andre Agassi
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Theres some kind of dark symbiosis between lunatics and the Postal Service.
— Don Novello
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We realize we can't go around saying and doing what we're actually thinking and feeling. If we all did that, life would be a lunatic…
— Robert McKee
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We didn't know if ordinary lunatics or just unstable people on the ground could feel incited to harm me.
— Thuli Madonsela
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