Best Madmen Lines
204 Madmen quotes by 154 unique authors
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I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?
— Jack Kerouac
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Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.
— William Shakespeare
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Jad said, "The leakage was forcing choices, the making of which in no way improved matters." Okay. So we were, in effect, locked in a…
— Neal Stephenson
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat…
— Blaise Pascal
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Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
— Jean Cocteau
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True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well…
— Charles Bukowski
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Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than…
— Terry Pratchett
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but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane.…
— Akira Kurosawa
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No--when the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it, because if you can make…
— Rachel Cohn
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He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
— Alexandre Dumas
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I prefer sinners and madmen, who can learn, who can change, who can teach-or people like myself, if I may say so, who are not…
— James A. Baldwin
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Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
— Neil Gaiman
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Yes, what we are doing is probably mad, and probably it is good and necessary all the same. It is not a good thing when…
— Hermann Hesse
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It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.
— Suzanne Collins
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Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool;…
— William Shakespeare
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We are in the dark places of the earth," said Madman. "Where all the ancient and most dangerous secrets are kept. There are Old Things…
— Simon R. Green
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That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a…
— Euripides
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That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes…
— Paulo Coelho
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If I saw something once that I can't explain, that doesn't make them real. And if a trick of the dark gave me a chill,…
— Charlie Huston
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Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.
— David Levithan
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Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends.
— William Shakespeare
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