Top 100 Quotes About Madman
#2. Madman drummers, bummers, Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat. In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat.
Bruce Springsteen
#3. Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
Samuel Richardson
#4. The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#5. He had found in himself the perfect, undeniable case of insanity. He possessed wisdom, patience, tolerance, truthfulness, loyalty, and moral fortitude - all the qualities that go to make an utter madman.
Machado De Assis
#6. Love is a madman, working his wild schemes, tearing off his clothes, running through the mountains ...
Rumi
#7. The water in which the mystic swims is the same water a madman drowns in.
Joseph Campbell
#10. 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
#11. Just because I'm employing an Igor and working in a cellar doesn't mean I'm some sort of madman, ha ha ha!
Terry Pratchett
#12. Since Don Quixote de la Mancha is a crazy fool and a madman, and since Sancho Panza, his squire, knows it, yet, for all that, serves and follows him, and hangs on these empty promises of his, there can be no doubt that he is more of a madman and a fool than his master.
Miguel De Cervantes
#13. Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman.
L. Ron Hubbard
#14. I may play a total madman on TV, but I'm really just a very unbalanced guy at home. However, when it comes to stocks, I believe in being rigorous and methodical, not crazy. There's no madness to my method.
Jim Cramer
#15. I've told you before, I love like a madman," he said. "Immoderate, jealous, possessive ... I'm absolutely intolerable.
Lisa Kleypas
#16. There is only one question: Does what you do, every day, have meaning? Acaelus had thought his actions did, once. For centuries, he'd put his faith in Jorsin Alkestes. A long dead king. A madman who'd sworn he would return. Even from death. A madman who'd left madness everywhere in his wake.
Brent Weeks
#17. I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without any troubles and obsessions, laughing senselessly from morning to night.
Emile M. Cioran
#18. A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't.
Ajahn Chah
#19. Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision ...
Salvador Dali
#20. I do question everything. But I want to have my questions. I want to have more thoughts than my mind can hold, so many that I have to write them in fragments like a madman.
Lauren DeStefano
#21. Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool?
Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.
William Shakespeare
#22. 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
#23. The only and absolute perfect union of two is when a baby hangs suspended in its mother's womb, like a tiny madman in a padded cell, attached to her, feeling her blood and hormones, and moods play through its body, feeling her feelings.
Diane Ackerman
#24. A madman in particular has always a very strong reason for the crimes he commits.
Agatha Christie
#25. According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up.
John Gerard
#26. I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.
Charles Spurgeon
#27. I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.
Dylan Thomas
#28. He liked the Leedses. He was sorry that he had been to the morgue. He thought the madman who visited them might have liked them too. But the madman would like them better the way they were now.
Thomas Harris
#29. 3 things that should not be fought in this world, namely the Government, The Rich and the Madman
Bambang
#31. I read through the book of Matthew this evening. I was up all night. I couldn't stop reading so I read through Mark. This Jesus of yours is either a madman or the Son of God. Somewhere in the middle of Mark I realized He was the Son of God.
Donald Miller
#32. There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.
Andre Maurois
#33. Thank goodness it's you, not that madman who came last time, the one with the bullfighter's name. He seemed drunk to me, or else eminently certifiable. He had the nerve to ask me whether I knew the etymology of the word 'prick,' in a sarcastic tone that was quite out of place.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#34. It's dark and it's cold and I stoke the fire like a madman to keep warm. One
Erlend Loe
#35. The worst madman is the one who fails to consider the possibility of somebody else being mad too.
Vladimir Nabokov
#36. What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what
he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.
Charles Bukowski
#38. Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I'll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master ... it's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.
Charles Bukowski
#39. If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
G.K. Chesterton
#40. The only difference between me and a madman is I'm not mad.
Salvador Dali
#41. What if history was a gambler, instead of a force in a laboratory experiment, and the boys his ace in the hole? What if history was not a reasonable citizen, but a madman full of paranoid guile and these boys his agents, his big surprise! His own revenge?
Ralph Ellison
#42. Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.
Herman Melville
#43. There's a pleasure being mad that only the madman knows.
Elly Griffiths
#44. People believe that madness is when you don't think as they do, which is why they take me for a madman.
Jose Rizal
#45. No
when the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it, because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life. (Nick, page 156)
Rachel Cohn
#46. A madman should always behave like someone not of this world.
Paulo Coelho
#47. 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
#48. A madman is not less a musician than you or myself; only the instrument on which he plays is a little out of tune.
Kahlil Gibran
#49. Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.
Zhuangzi
#50. And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
T. S. Eliot
#52. The real drug is to train like a madman, really like a madman.
Aleksandr Karelin
#53. Stephen rubbed at his face. Look, I have three choices. I never see you again so I'm not tempted; I give in to temptation and milk you for power until I'm a raging madman; or I control myself. I don't like the first two options.
K.J. Charles
#54. It was a good apple too. A good apple, picked by a madman on a full moon night.
Steven Herrick
#55. With these words there came the rending scream of a shattered stirk and an angry troubling of the branches as the poor madman percolated through the sieve of a sharp yew, a wailing black meteor hurtling through green clouds, a human prickles.
Flann O'Brien
#56. Everyone thinks that. It's one of those little secrets we keep from each other. Show me a serious man and I'll show you a man who has never wept. Show me a madman and I'll show you a man who dried his tears a long time ago. Go ahead." "I
Ray Bradbury
#59. When I wake up I look like a madman, like something out of a horror movie! That's why I sleep alone. But the funny thing is that I'm very impeccable and clean before I go to bed. It's just like right before I'm going out.
Karl Lagerfeld
#60. When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
Edgar Allan Poe
#61. The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have the power to wake it. Hell aint half full. Hear me. Ye carry war of a madman's making onto a foreign land. Ye'll wake more than the dogs.
Cormac McCarthy
#62. I hold a beast, an angel and a madman within me.
Dylan Thomas
#63. Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously.
Kerry Thornley
#64. Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up of beautiful falsities, an elegant liar? I shall grapple with that perplexity, only to emerge as I went in, in a cloud of unknowing, if perhaps a little the wiser.
Eva Brann
#65. Would any thing but a madman complain of uncertainty? Uncertainty and expectation are joys of life; security is an insipid thing; and the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.
William Congreve
#66. The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.
Arthur Honegger
#67. So you're stuck. Every time your madman starts to write, your judge pounces on him ... So start by promising your judge that you'll get around to asking his opinion, but not now. And then let the madman energy flow ... Save details for the judge.
Betty Sue Flowers
#68. The fellow is either a madman or a poet.
Horace
#69. I had heard that madmen have unnatural strength. And as I knew I was a madman, at times anyhow, I resolved to use my power.
Bram Stoker
#70. Conspiracy nut, leftist, madman. These are terms of dismissal so you don't have to listen to the argument. It would be healthier and more fun to hear what someone has to say.
Oliver Stone
#71. Nicolas Cage, I would love to work with him again. He's just a fearless madman. He'll go anywhere you want to go. He would not say 'no' to anything.
Spike Jonze
#72. 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
#73. Then I understood. There was no book. My father wasn't a writer. He wasn't even a vampire. He was a madman.
Kami Garcia
#74. Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'
Graham Swift
#75. The difference between a drunkard and a madman is 10%.
Auliq Ice
#76. I know that I have been a fool, a madman, to believe that the snow could have been animated, that the marble could grow warm; but what would you expect? The lover easily believes in love, nor has my journey been entirely in vain, since I behold you now.
Alexandre Dumas
#78. He that spareth in everything is an inexcusable niggard. He that spareth in nothing is an inexcusable madman. The mean is to spare in what is least necessary, and to lay out more liberally in what is most required in our several circumstances.
Charles Montagu, 1st Earl Of Halifax
#79. Ask anybody, would you want an ex-madman living next door? It's difficult enough being an ex-convict. It's double hard for us 'madmen'. Please believe it.
Stephen Richards
#80. 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 somewhere nearby.
Jim Butcher
#81. Daytime Bartender Moonlights as a madman. Now there's a novel,
Kimberly Bettes
#83. No one is a man of learning unless he is also a heretic and a madman, and above all , aggressively perverse.
Francesco Petrarca
#85. The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.
Terence McKenna
#86. There are different categories of madmen, and different types of asylums! I know absolutely nothing about the asylums that house the madman who thinks he is a space man. Would you believe that 90% of madmen are treated in outside clinics?
Stephen Richards
#88. A man who is of 'sound mind' is one who keeps his inner madman under lock and key.
Paul Valery
#89. A dancer differeth from a madman only in length of time; one is mad so long as he liveth, the other while he danceth.
Alphonsus Liguori
#90. The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.
Salvador Dali
#91. Don't any of you realize there's only one life between that madman and the Presidency?
Mark Hanna
#92. Not all novelists are power-hungry madman. Some are power-hungry madwomen.
Pseudonymous Bosch
#93. He (Peter) doesn't know if he's looking into the eyes of a madman, or the eyes of a King.
Roma Downey
#94. Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#95. Madman, thou errest. I say, there is no darkness but ignorance, in which thou art more puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog.
William Shakespeare
#96. As incompetent in life as in death, I loathe myself and in this loathing I dream of another life, another death. And for having sought to be a sage such as never was, I am only a madman among the mad ...
Emil Cioran
#97. Not a formidable presence, except in that madman way that drunks wield, that does-it-look-like-I-give-a-fuck-about-anything?
Nick Flynn
#98. I too can play the madman, the fool, the hero; in short, any or everything to rescue her I love.
James Fenimore Cooper
#99. A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
G.K. Chesterton
#100. The archtraitor and madman Shuos Jedao had appeared as a Ninefox Crowned with Eyes, visionary and strategist, but had proved to be an Immolation Fox.
Yoon Ha Lee
