Best Madmen Thoughts
204 Madmen quotes by 154 unique authors
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Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who…
— John Maynard Keynes
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The love of Christ embraces all without exception. Fire of love, crazy over what You have made. Oh, divine Madman. (Prayer of Catherine Siena) Simply…
— Brennan Manning
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There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.
— J D Salinger
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Igor?' said Moist. 'You have an Igor?' Oh, yes,' said Hubert. 'That's how I get this wonderful light. They know the secret of storing lightning…
— Terry Pratchett
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
— Aldous Huxley
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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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The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.
— C.S. Lewis
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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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Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why…
— William Shakespeare
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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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He knew that he was the stuff of which fanatics and madmen are made and that he had turned his destiny as if with his…
— Flannery O'Connor
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These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed…
— Bram Stoker
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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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