Lunatic Quotes Page 2

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

I am a shadow’s shade, a lunatic, perhaps, Of two dark moons.

In a face, look for the main light and the main shadow;

the rest will come naturally — it's often not important. And then you must cultivate your memory, because Nature will only provide you with references. Nature is like a warden in a lunatic asylum. It stops you from becoming banal.

My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.

I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met, excepting in romances, with fonder husbands, more affectionate parents, more impassioned . . . than in the lunatic asylum, during their intervals of calmness and reason.

Perhaps this is why lunatics have a harder time dating, not because they are off the wall but because it is hard to find soemone who is willing to date so many people in one person.

I swear to God, if you saw me when I am by myself in the woods, I'm a lunatic. I sing, I dance.

No athletes talk to themselves like tennis players.

Pitchers, golfers, goalkeepers, they mutter to themselves, but tennis players talk to themselves-and answer. Tennis players look like lunatics in a public square.

It is called in our schools 'beastliness', and this is about the best name for it... should it become a habit it quickly destroys both health and spirits; he becomes feeble in body and mind, and often ends in a lunatic asylum.

Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

All that makes a lunatic are the very ordinary ideas of mankind shut up inside a man's head.

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn.

Strange times are these, in which we live, forsooth ;

When young and old are taught in Falsehood's school:– And the man who dares to tell the truth, Is called at once a lunatic and fool.

Ah,” said a voice from the doorway, “having your annual ‘everyone thinks Will is a lunatic’ meeting, are you? “It’s biannual,” said Jem. “And no, this is not that meeting.

Idiot! Lunatic! Moron! Jackass! Selfish irresponsible fool!

Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

Whatever may be guru - he may be a lunatic or a common person.

Once you have accepted him, he is the lord of lords.

...it seemed to me I was living in an insane asylum of my own making. I wnt about with all these fantastic figures: centaurs, nymphs, satyrs, gods and goddesses, as though they were patients and I was analyzing them. I read a Greek or Negro myth as if a lunatic were telling me his anamnesis.

Most of my favorite people in my life are gay.

It's something I'm super passionate about, because whenever I would see my friends get bullied, or my brother get hurt for his sexuality, I would become a raging lunatic.

A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing the marvellous idea to paper, does something else of a quite different kind, so as to acquire new and rich experience.

No, my friend. We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind. Would you like me to decipher a Rorschach for you?

I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.

I wanted to play a good guy after doing this lunatic on The Sopranos for two years. And then they did the sequel to Bad Boys, where I get to play the barking captain again.

I don't know what I can do about the aging.

Yes, I am aging. Oh my God, I'm aging all the time. It's like those flowers that wilt in front of you in time-lapse films. But what can I possibly do? Look like a lunatic?

Theres some kind of dark symbiosis between lunatics and the Postal Service.

To be a good actor, you have to be very smart.

But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.'

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

America is a nation of 270 million people: 100 million of them are gangsters, another 100 million are hustlers, 50 million are complete lunatics, and every single one of us is secretly in show business. Isn't that fabulous?

Sane, normal people don't need power trips. So the lunatics end up in charge of everything.

I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.