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Madmen Quotes

1.
To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Authors on Madmen Quotes: Seneca the Younger Marguerite de Navarre Vasily Grossman Publilius Syrus Horace Jean-Jacques Rousseau Lauren Bacall Alexandre Dumas Henry Miller Robert Aickman David Bowie Henri Michaux Salvador Dali Pseudonymous Bosch Lord Chesterfield Juan Ruiz de Alarcon Jacobo Timerman Anatole France Mark Hanna Robert Anton Wilson Ajahn Chah George Singleton Samuel Richardson Abdul Qadeer Khan Miguel de Cervantes Irving Stone Andre Maurois Fritz Leiber J. D. Salinger Clay Walker Gilbert K. Chesterton Terry Pratchett Edgar Allan Poe
2.
There is A madman inside of you Who is always running for office
Hafez

3.
The madman is a dreamer awake
Sigmund Freud

4.
When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are.
Robert Aickman

5.
History is the autobiography of a madman.
Alexander Herzen

6.
The real drug is to train like a madman, really like a madman.
Aleksandr Karelin

7.
He who hides his madman, dies voiceless.
Henri Michaux

8.
Only the madman is absolutely sure.
Robert Anton Wilson

9.
A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't.
Ajahn Chah

10.
We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.
Paolo Veronese

11.
Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.
William Shakespeare

12.
God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards.
Marguerite de Navarre

13.
When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
Edgar Allan Poe

14.
Not all novelists are power-hungry madman. Some are power-hungry madwomen.
Pseudonymous Bosch

15.
What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
Anatole France

16.
To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.
Henry Miller

17.
We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen.
Jacobo Timerman

18.
The dreamer is a madman quiescent, the madman is a dreamer in action.
Frederic Henry Hedge

19.
I'd rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free.
David Bowie

20.
I am not a madman or a nut.
Abdul Qadeer Khan

21.
Don't any of you realize there's only one life between that madman and the Presidency?
Mark Hanna

22.
Nations are as equal as so many madmen or drunkards.
Fritz Leiber

23.
He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.
Vasily Grossman

24.
Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

25.
Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
Jean Cocteau

26.
Someone like myself,
who claimed to be a real madman,
living and organized with a Pythagorean precision.
Salvador Dali

27.
We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.
Lord Chesterfield

28.
Materialists and madmen never have doubts.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

29.
It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities .
Marcus Aurelius

30.
I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself
Milan Kundera

31.
Every madman considers everyone else a madman.
Publilius Syrus

32.
There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.
Andre Maurois

33.
I am very active, ... I like to ride horses. I golf. I perform onstage. I am a madman onstage.
Clay Walker

34.
Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.
Herman Melville

35.
Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

36.
The fellow is either a madman or a poet.
Horace

37.
The madmen seem to live on forever, don't they?
Lauren Bacall

38.
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
Samuel Richardson

39.
The madman who knows that he is mad is close to sanity.
Juan Ruiz de Alarcon

40.
Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted advisor.
Terry Pratchett

41.
Gilles Deleuze believed that every society needed a madman so we could feel better about ourselves. I do my best to fill that role.
George Singleton

42.
Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.
Anne Rice

43.
Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
Irving Stone

44.
For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.
Miguel de Cervantes

45.
That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.
J. D. Salinger

46.
Only a madman would give good for evil
Euripides

47.
It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman.
Seneca the Younger

48.
It is pleasant at times to play the madman.
Seneca the Younger

49.
You know, people talk about [Richard] Nixon's "madman theory." We don't really know much about that. It was in memoirs, by somebody else.
Noam Chomsky

50.
I’ve told you before, I love like a madman,” he said. “Immoderate, jealous, possessive...I’m absolutely intolerable.
Lisa Kleypas