Madmen Quotes

History is the autobiography of a madman. — Alexander Herzen

All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out. — Barbara Kingsolver

Patches of stained red grass. Rotting baby limbs at dusk. The sound of cicadas and laughter; picnics with madmen by the black lake at noon. — Andrew Gallacher

A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,' said he. 'Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world. — Rafael Sabatini

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

We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen. — Philip Dormer Stanhope

There is
A madman inside of you
Who is always running for office — Hafez

At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them. — Vince Lombardi

Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause. — John Dryden

Blackmail threats are e-mails from madmen. — Michael Bassey Johnson

The seriousness of madmen is one of the most exhausting realities. — Glen Duncan

Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw. — Mark Lawrence

A strange coldness had settled upon Achamian, the monolithic selfishness of which only children and madmen are sometimes capable. — R. Scott Bakker

I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen. — Anthony Hopkins

Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

True dreamers are both geniuses and madmen. Most lands can tolerate only a few, and those die young. — N.K. Jemisin

Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general. — Marcel Duchamp

The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans. — Philip J. Davis

I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen. — W. H. Auden

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

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

The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Only barbarians and madmen take pleasure in combat. Whoever — Patrick Rothfuss

Every madman considers everyone else a madman. — Publilius Syrus

Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

the worst madmen don't seem odd at all," Grimm said. "They appear to be quite calm and rational, in fact. Until the screaming starts. — Jim Butcher

Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality? — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

If you look back through history, most visionaries are one step away from madmen." I — Rysa Walker

This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen. — William Shakespeare

He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen. — Alexandre Dumas

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself. — Denis Diderot

We've all become god's madmen, all of us. — Bram Stoker

Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes. — Friedrich Nietzsche

My mother taught me long ago that only madmen fight wars they cannot win. — George R R Martin

Such stuff as madmen tongue. — William Shakespeare

Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction. — Benjamin Whichcote

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

Sometimes luck belongs to children and madmen. — Robin Hobb

Only a madman would give good for evil — Euripides

Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to behave as a madman in my presence? Shall — Anonymous

Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded ... — Edgar Allan Poe

You don't appreciate the fact that madmen are very lucky. — Luigi Pirandello

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

The wind, my friends, only speaks to madmen - and I heard it call my name. — Pierdomenico Baccalario

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

Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe. — Carl Sagan

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

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

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

Everything that ever gets done in this world is done by madmen, — Aldous Huxley

When one lives among madmen, one should train as a maniac. — Alexandre Dumas

Fiction and fact: only madmen and magistrates cannot discriminate between them. — Alan Moore

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

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen. — Emile M. Cioran

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

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

We take the names of madmen, because madness is our fate. Terribly melodramatic, that. — Michael Grant

When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats. — John Le Carre

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

Ambition is a drug that turns it's addicts into potential madmen. — Emil Cioran

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

A country without a memory is a country of madmen. — George Santayana

Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

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

Late-night shortwave: province of ramblers and dreamers, madmen and ranters. — Anthony Doerr

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

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

There is a pleasure sure
In being mad, which none but madmen know.
Dryden, The Spanish Friar II, i — Gerald Durrell

This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses. — George W. Bush

What Richard Selzer, M.D. once wrote of surgery is true of therapy: only human love keeps this from being the act of two madmen. — Thomas Lewis

Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who danced in order to die. — Albert Camus

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

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

The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen. — C.S. Lewis

The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap. — Cynthia Ozick

Seashores are good for madmen - provided they're not too mad. — Saul Bellow

The genius of art finds sanctuary among children and madmen to survive.That is who we are. — Marilyn Manson

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

Calumny is only the noise of madmen. — Diogenes

All men are mad in some way or another, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world. — Bram Stoker

God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards. — Marguerite De Navarre

Madmen and fools feel no fear. Heroes fear and face the danger anyway. — Joe Abercrombie

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

Only criminals and madmen walk into Central Park after midnight...or, occasionally, an actor. (Dark City Lights) — Jane Dentinger

Much of what we call History is the success stories of madmen. — John Holt

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

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. — Alexander Pope

I love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in one — Jessica Lange

It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman. — Seneca The Younger

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