Madman Quotes

143 Madman quotes by 114 unique authors

"No," he says, taking us both in. "No, no, no. You've come farther than most people on this planet will in their lifetimes. You've overcome… — Patrick Ness
The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he… — Aaron Allston
It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman. — Seneca the Younger
The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman. — Boris Pasternak
I'm just not one of these guys who, like, you know, woke up with a six-pack. I need Skittles. I have to eat very particularly… — Max Greenfield
Madman drummers, bummers, Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat. In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his… — Bruce Springsteen
I am not a madman or a nut. — Abdul Qadeer Khan
Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out. — Terry Pratchett
The truth of life lies in the impulsiveness of matter. The mind of man has been poisoned by concepts. Do not ask him to be… — Antonin Artaud
The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason... — Gilbert K. Chesterton
For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died. — Miguel de Cervantes
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. To be able to… — Edith Hamilton
Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist. — David Attenborough
I hold a beast, an angel and a madman within me. — Dylan Thomas
So you're stuck. Every time your madman starts to write, your judge pounces on him... So start by promising your judge that you'll get around… — Betty Sue Flowers
I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without… — Emile M. Cioran
What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation. — Anatole France
Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it… — Robbie Coltraine
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. — Salvador Dali
The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad. — Salvador Dali
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like… — Denis Diderot
My own judgment of how the world is gonna end is that there will be a country led by a madman that will build a… — Evel Knievel
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer? — Samuel Richardson
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. — Logan Pearsall Smith

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