Best Madmen Quotations
204 Madmen quotes by 154 unique authors
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All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too,…
— Bram Stoker
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"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
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The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.
— Cynthia Ozick
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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
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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
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It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman.
— Seneca the Younger
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Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
— Diogenes
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I'd rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free.
— David Bowie
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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
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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
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Anger and jealousy's all that he sells us, he's content when you're under his thumb. Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him, to survive…
— Bob Dylan
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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
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The range of derivatives contracts is limited only by the imagination of man (or sometimes, so it seems, madmen). Say you want to write a…
— Warren Buffett
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I am not a madman or a nut.
— Abdul Qadeer Khan
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Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out.
— Terry Pratchett
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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
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The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason...
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Materialists and madmen never have doubts.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool…
— William Blake
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys,…
— Alexander Pope
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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
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Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist.
— David Attenborough
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I hold a beast, an angel and a madman within me.
— Dylan Thomas
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