Top 100 A Madman Quotes
#1. 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 room with a madman sorcerer. That clarified things a little.
Neal Stephenson
#2. The difference between a normal person and an insane one is precisely that the normal person has all the diseases of the mind, while the madman has only one!
Robert Musil
#3. I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#4. Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion.
Benjamin Whichcote
#5. He's got a box with a demon in it that draws pictures," said Rincewind shortly. "Do what the madman says and he will give you gold.
Terry Pratchett
#6. A line from Barthes she remembered: Every lover is mad, we are told. But can we imagine a madman in love?
Jeffrey Eugenides
#7. I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself
Milan Kundera
#8. Only a madman would give good for evil
Euripides
#9. I think he is just an old man who still believes in his country, his old Germany. we all wanted a new Germany, but not at the cost of this madman, Hitler. Your grandpa can't be blamed for loving his old Germany.
Ann Rinaldi
#10. Wherever a choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman. For the madman appeals to what is fundamental, to passion and the instincts; the philosophers to what is superficial and supererogatory - reason.
Aldous Huxley
#11. Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His
being just a great teacher? He's not left that open to us.
C.S. Lewis
#12. If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.
Socrates
#13. There is no greater hiding place for a secret than within the mind of a madman.
Alexander Ferrick
#14. If a story seems too random, or perhaps too brilliant, for a "madman" to have conceived of it himself, then consider that the "author" might be reality and the "madman" just the reader. After all, only reality can escape the limits of our imagination.
Rivka Galchen
#15. To use the intelligence in any other than the habitual way is not to use the intelligence; it is to be irrational, to rave like a madman.
Aldous Huxley
#16. To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.
Henry Miller
#17. Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to behave as a madman in my presence? Shall
Anonymous
#18. 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
#19. So here was my predicament: I knew that within myself was a Golconda of memories of other lives, yet I was unable to do more than flit like a madman through those memories. I had my Golconda but could not mine it.
Jack London
#20. Once you were in the hands of a Grand Vizier, you were dead. Grand Viziers were always scheming megalomaniacs. It was probably in the job description: "Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted minister.
Terry Pratchett
#21. Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert,
when all around you there is nothing but water!
Kabir
#22. 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
#23. When the habit of seeing things as they are turns into a mania, we lament the madman we have been and are no longer.
Emil Cioran
#24. A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.
Prince Philip
#25. To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
Denis Diderot
#26. What are you trying to prove? Do you think if you kill enough people in the worst ways imaginable they'll give you a name like the Madman, or the Butcher? It doesn't matter how many abhorrent tortures you devise. You'll always be the Pinhead.
Clive Barker
#27. Really, monsieur, I should regard you as a coward, and a traitor too, if I did not, with greater justice, regard you as a madman.
Alexandre Dumas
#28. As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a little from the madman.
Samuel Johnson
#29. My own judgment of how the world is gonna end is that there will be a country led by a madman that will build a nuclear bomb with so much force, so much power, that it will be dropped somewhere on the face of this earth and that the earth will lose its place.
Evel Knievel
#30. For instance, I remember someone asking Sophocles, the poet, whether he was still capable of enjoying a woman. 'Don't talk in that way,' he answered; 'I am only too glad to be free of all that; it is like escaping from bondage to a raging madman.
Plato
#31. 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
#32. The only difference between a futile madman and an effective tyrant is power and will.
Sheri S. Tepper
#33. 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 understand about me, 'cause it's important and one day your life may depend on it. [He Smiles] I am definitely a madman with a box.
Steven Moffat
#36. You can be a homicidal madman and hilarious at the same time, you know,
Michael Buckley
#37. Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
Irving Stone
#39. The madman bum and angel beat in time with the absolute heart of the poem butchered out of their own bodies good to eat a thousand years
Allen Ginsberg
#40. If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
Samuel Johnson
#41. A gentleman killed with bullets, the state with gas. Only a madman used a knife.
Lavie Tidhar
#42. And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm.
Stephen Fry
#43. There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions.
Michael Moorcock
#44. Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.
Miguel De Cervantes
#46. What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
Anatole France
#47. Gaiety and grief and despair and tenderness and triumph followed one another without any connection, like the emotions of a madman. And those emotions, like a madman's, sprang up quite unexpectedly.
Leo Tolstoy
#48. I wonder if every genius has a touch of madness, does everyone that's normal have a touch or retardation?
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#49. Were you always like this?'
'Like what?'
'A madman. With a time machine.'
'Oh, no. It took ages until I got the time machine.
Neil Gaiman
#50. It was said of him that he had once been for a short time in Bedlam; they had done him the honour to take him for a madman, but had set him free on discovering that he was only a poet. This story was probably not true; we have all to submit to some such legend about us.
Victor Hugo
#51. 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.
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
#52. Some writers, no matter how good they are, can't speak to us. Something about the way they see the world, I think, string sentences together, alienates us as surely as the ramblings of a madman on a bus.
David Bowker
#53. Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#54. A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#56. I am very active, ... I like to ride horses. I golf. I perform onstage. I am a madman onstage.
Clay Walker
#57. There is
A madman inside of you
Who is always running for office
Hafez
#58. I earned my strength when a sick psychotic man took the perfect world I built for myself, shook it like a snow globe, and smashed it up against a wall. I have earned every breath I've ever took, while being choked at the hands of a madman.
Christine Zolendz
#59. Because she was stuck in a cabin with a murdering madman who thought she was his queen and intended to bind her to him until she died
Kristen Ashley
#60. I think one of the most destructive things in terms of American security has been for all of our leaders, without exception in both parties, to identify Osama bin Laden as a gangster or as a madman, as an apocalyptic character who's out to destroy our civilization.
Michael Scheuer
#61. 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
#62. Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.
David Levithan
#63. Handing me a pen is like handy a madman a knife ... at the end of it you know you'll end up with a lot of broken bones, blood, and bodies - but it'll be one hell of a story to tell your friends.
D.E.M. Emrys
#64. Jenny, I'm so sorry. I think I may have encouraged you to marry a madman.' 'Yes, we're going to be discussing this later. Oh.
Jodi Taylor
#65. There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
Antonin Artaud
#66. It is nothing to get wet; but the misery of these individual pricks of cold all over my body at the same instant of time made me flail the water with my paddle like a madman.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#67. A madman overcomes it by adapting to his surroundings. You can't give up. Why die? There is always another mission; it's the missions that keep you alive.
Stephen Richards
#68. As we flew through the air, Aries shrieked. If we all survive, he's never living that down. Behind us, Madman was laughing like this was the funniest thing in the world, and Sir Mix-a-Lot was still aggressively campaigning the perks of big booties. We
Laura Thalassa
#69. 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, that doesn't make them real. And if a madman says what's at the core of us all is a senseless, flapping quiver of black shade, that's just one more reason not to believe.
Charlie Huston
#71. Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
Jean Cocteau
#72. Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman ... Which is probably the same thing!
Apostolos Doxiadis
#74. 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 a madman believes what every child knows to be true: There are monsters that lie in wait under our beds.
Rick Yancey
#75. He wasn't just leaving the valley, he was leaving with his brother. And his brother-in-law. And a card shark, a casino mogul and a gangster. And his boyfriend and his madman fresh from the attic.
Heidi Cullinan
#76. I'm not a criminal madman,' said Vimes. ( ... )
'Never mind, you'll soon fit in,' said Lawn.
Terry Pratchett
#77. Oh sure, everyone else charges monsters and it's brave, I do it once and I'm a madman.
Drew Hayes
#78. I'm crazy, boy. I'm a madman. I could eat both of you for dinner and love every bite.
James Dashner
#79. Oh, yes. I've no doubt in my own mind that we have been invited here by a madman-probably a dangerous homicidal lunatic.
Agatha Christie
#80. Just then the door flew open, and Ambrose burst through, yelling like a madman and swinging a battle-ax in one hand.
Amy Plum
#81. Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist.
David Attenborough
#82. Take outside - freedom. What is it? What does it mean to a madman? I'll tell you, we go years through a lifetime with no love, no sex, no nice food and no nice clothes. So when it comes ... we choke on it! The kindness strangles us; we can't cope, so we make pigs of ourselves.
Stephen Richards
#83. These are your friends now, Grace Mae. A madman who eats cancer in the dark and another who searches for a different kind of killer, the kind who smiles at you in the light of day.
Mindy McGinnis
#84. 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
#85. As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we have at once the sense of it covering everything and the sense of it leaving everything out.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#86. I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman.
Tim Robbins
#87. So long as men denounce each other as mentally sick (homosexual, addicted, insane, and so forth) so that the madman can always be considered the Other, never the Self mental illness will remain an easily exploitable concept, and Coercive Psychiatry a flourishing institution.
Thomas Szasz
#88. Well, when you're being held at gunpoint by a geriatric madman in a metal skirt, you've kind of hit rock bottom anyway. It can't really get much worse.
Jonathan Stroud
#90. We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.
An Wang
#91. 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
#92. Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.
Robbie Coltrane
#93. 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
#94. They moved as a unit, a first for her. The madman and the nightmare.
Erin Kellison
#95. I am not up there by chance. I am there by choice. And I know the wire. And I know my limits. And I am a madman of details.
Philippe Petit
#96. There was no planning for insanity. With enough revolutions and elections, enough transfers of power, eventually a madman would take the reins.
Hugh Howey
#98. Atom, you want to flee the sun?
Madman, give up!
You're a jar; fate's a stone-
kick against it, and you'l waste your wine.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#99. The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.
Aaron Allston
#100. Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted advisor.
Terry Pratchett
