Best Madman Words
143 Madman quotes by 114 unique authors
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The madman is a dreamer awake
— Sigmund Freud
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I’ve told you before, I love like a madman,” he said. “Immoderate, jealous, possessive...I’m absolutely intolerable.
— Lisa Kleypas
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Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.
— Herman Melville
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself
— Milan Kundera
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... They paid some madman who thought he was a decorator a lot of money to make the place look hip and unique. May be…
— Jim Butcher
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Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative, no enterprise, no…
— Emile M. Cioran
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And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Could there be irony crueler than this? How, upon his rescue, the truth had brought him here, to a house for the mad, for only…
— Rick Yancey
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I can't forget things, or ignore them-bad things that happen," I said. "I'm a lay-it-all-out person, a dwell-on-it person, an obsess-about-it person. If I hold…
— E. Lockhart
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A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and…
— Steven Pressfield
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Amy Pond: 'I thought... well, I started to think you were just a madman with a box.' The Doctor: 'Amy Pond, there's something you better…
— Steven Moffat
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So there I was being strangled by a ranting, half-naked madman in the middle of the woods, with a she-werewolf dangling from a rope snare…
— Jim Butcher
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The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.
— Terence McKenna
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There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions.
— Michael Moorcock
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The bugs are not like us. The Pseudo-Arachnids aren’t even like spiders. They are arthropods who happen to look like a madman’s conception of a…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with its…
— Michel Foucault
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He kissed back, all the pages spread out around us like riddles waiting to be solved. Let them wait. Let my genes unravel, my hinges…
— Lauren DeStefano
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I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut…
— C.S. Lewis
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Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Your actions are your own. Your choices are your own. Each of us carries a burden of guilt for decisions made or not made. You…
— Juliet Marillier
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Not all novelists are power-hungry madman. Some are power-hungry madwomen.
— Pseudonymous Bosch
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