90 Madmen Quotes
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Famous Madmen Quotes
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved. — Jack Kerouac
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. — Charles MacKay
Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all. — Voltaire
The madman is a dreamer awake — Sigmund Freud
In a mad world, only the mad are sane. — Akiro Kurosawa
To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. — Ambrose Bierce
Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable! — Marie Corelli
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. — Walter Isaacson
Sanely applied advertising could remake the world. — Stuart Chase
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked. — Allen Ginsberg
Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising. — John Lahr
A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, "You are mad; you are not like us." — Anthony the Great
I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats. — Bram Stoker
We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement. — William Golding
Short Madmen Quotes
- I hold a beast, an angel and a madman within me. — Dylan Thomas
- From children, drunkards and madmen you get to hear the truth. — Swedish Proverbs
- Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States. — Mick Jagger
- There is A madman inside of you Who is always running for office — Hafez
- When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are. — Robert Aickman
- One never knows how loyalty is born. — Robert Morse
- Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause. — John Dryden
- I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen. — Anthony Hopkins
- The real drug is to train like a madman, really like a madman. — Aleksandr Karelin
- On the pavement of my trampled soul the steps of madmen weave the prints of rude crude words. — Vladimir Mayakovsky
Am I Mad Quotes
If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end! — H. P. Lovecraft
When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness. — Anais Nin
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. — Salvador Dali
No masters or kings when the ritual begins [making love] There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene Only then I am human Only then I am clean — Hozier
Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain. — Bram Stoker
The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad. — Napoleon
The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad. — Napoleon III
I have a son in Barcelona whom I am madly in love with. — Sayings
People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown. — Vaslav Nijinsky
I had acne late, in college. My skin used to be really flawless. Went to college, became a vegetarian, ate a lot of cheese - big mistake. Here I am trying to be healthy and I'm eating grilled cheese sandwiches and French fries every day, having mad eruptions all over my face. — Wesley Snipes
Mad Men Quotes
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. — Edgar Allan Poe
I have read and re-read the Arusha Declaration and found nothing wrong with it except perhaps replacing a few commas here and there... it was clear for some of us that it would only be a mad man who would stand up and defend the Arusha Declaration. — Julius Nyerere
Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing a man can do is, just humbly to receive, and then go amongst others and give. — David Livingstone
Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it. — Salvador Dali
If my lips teach the public that men are made mad by bad treatment, and if the police are taught that they may exasperate to madness men they persecute and ill treat, my life will not be entirely thrown away. — Ned Kelly
You English are like mad bulls... you see red everywhere! What on earth has come over you, to heap on us such suspicion as is unworthy of a great nation. I regard this as a personal insult... You make it uncommonly difficult for a man to remain friendly to England. — Wilhelm II
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I read that nine out of 10 women fantasize about having an unknown man leap through their bedroom window at night and make mad, passionate love to them. Who would think with those odds, I would now be facing 150 hours of community service. — Emo Philips
Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another. — Homer
The man is clear in his mind, but his soul is mad. — Dennis Hopper
People Writing About Madmen
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Jack Kerouac |
460 | 3273 |
 Charles MacKay |
28 | 206 |
 Voltaire |
756 | 16591 |
 Sigmund Freud |
455 | 15250 |
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
381 | 3820 |
 Ambrose Bierce |
957 | 7203 |
More Madmen Quotes
We, at least, are not loyal men: we confess to having more respect and honour for the raggedest child of the poorest labourer in Ireland today than for any, even the most virtuous, descendant of the long array of murderers, adulterers and madmen who have sat upon the throne of England. — James Connolly
If I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I can't, as a Christian, simply wait for the catastrophe, then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I must try to wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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 hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back — John Maynard Keynes
Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist. — Kenneth E. Boulding
Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water! — Kabir
A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn't be a great moral teacher. He'd be either a lunatic on a level with a man who says he's a poached egg or else he'd be the devil of hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. — C. S. Lewis
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
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
"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 things in and try to forget or pretend, I become a madman and have panic attacks. I have to talk. — E. Lockhart
I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen. — Mahatma Gandhi
Gonzo . . . acidic hilarity . . . 'The Fun Parts' has fine moments, but it's not the whole Lipsyte story. Read it with 'The Ask' if you really want to know how a mordant jokester with a madman's imagination became a literary rock star. — Janet Maslin
I may be a lunatic, but then, wasn't my lunacy caused by a monster that lurks at the bottom of every human mind? Those who call me a madman and spurn me may become lunatics tomorrow. They harbor the same monster. — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Bush equals Clinton equals Bush equals Obama equals Clinton. It's the same policies...immigration policies that may turn us into Europe, where hordes of Islamic madmen are raping, killing, pillaging, defecating in public fountains, harassing private citizens, elderly people - that's what's coming. — Roger Stone
Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist. — David Attenborough
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. — Aldous Huxley
Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel. — Neil Gaiman
I love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in one — Jessica Lange
He who hides his madman, dies voiceless. — Henri Michaux
A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman. — Prince Philip
The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion. — Denis Diderot
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 they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too. — William Shakespeare
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 available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already. — Robert Anton Wilson
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. — William Shakespeare
The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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 our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate. — Steven Pressfield
I could easily blast so much keef night and day I become a bouhali; a real-gone crazy, a holy untouchable madman unto whom everything is permitted, nothing is true. — Brion Gysin
It is not difficult to destroy Islam. Islam is the pumped up ego of a megalomaniac psychopath. Muhammad was a narcissist madman. Just as a huge balloon can be deflated by a small needle, all it takes to make Islam explode is to ridicule its loony inventor and its brainless followers. — Ali Sina
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 and I have to work out like a madman. And then it looks like... okay. — Max Greenfield
Media were never allowed into an Australian dressing room until I became skipper. I changed that and invited them in at the close of play each day, thereby confirming for many administrators they had appointed a madman as captain. — Richie Benaud
In order to win over Paris and appear, in the eyes of all Europe, an absolute innovator, the most advanced of all, I urge you to get to work with all your heart, resolute on being bolder, crazier, more advanced, surprising, eccentric, incomprehensible, and grotesque than anybody else in music. I urge you to be a madman. — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
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 content, ask him only to be calm, to believe that he has found his place. But only the madman is really calm. — Antonin Artaud
A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't. — Ajahn Chah
Don't believe stories which you see in the papers about troops asking as a special privilege not to be relieved. We stick it, at all costs if necessary, as long as ordered, but everyone's glad to hand over to someone else. And anyone who says he enjoys this kind of thing is either a liar or a madman. — Harry Yoxall
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