Madmen Quotes - Page 6

• Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.

  Anne Rice

  Art, Shock, Meant To Be

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• Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.

  John Dryden

  Kings, Fighting, Empires

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• 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

  Stars, Fun, Rocks

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• The madman who knows that he is mad is close to sanity.

  Juan Ruiz de Alarcon

  Mad, Sanity, Knows

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• Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly, I seek God! I seek God! As many of those who do not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter...
  Whither is God, he cried. I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. All of us are murderers.... God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Morning, Laughter, Believe

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• 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

  Dance, Long, Mad

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• 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

  Men, Thinking, Vision

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• The fool sees naught but folly; and the madman only madness. Yesterday I asked a foolish man to count the fools among us. He laughed and said, "This is too hard a thing to do, and it will take too long. Were it not better to count only the wise?"

  Khalil Gibran

  Wise, Laughter, Men

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• 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

  Fear, Innovation, Atheism

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• 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

  Writing, Angel, Self

  Dylan Thomas, Paul Ferris (1985). “The collected letters”, Scribner

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• Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.

  Keith Richards

  Music, Thinking, People

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• I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.

  W. H. Auden

  Blood, Smell, Eras

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• What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?

  Jack Kerouac

  Men, Rainbow, Body

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mad, Helping, Great Divorce

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• Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out.

  Terry Pratchett

  Struggle, Fantasy, Discworld

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• 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

  People, Religion, Atheism

  "Conversations with a Christian Lady". "Selected Writings", edited by Lester G. Crocker, 1966.

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• ...The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out unless the government has a 'compelling interest' in censoring the Internet. The Second Amendment doesn't say you have the right to keep and bear arms until some madman plants a bomb. The Fourth Amendment doesn't say you have the right to be secure from search and seizure unless some FBI agent thinks you fit the profile of a terrorist. The government has no right to interfere with any of these freedoms under any circumstances.

  Harry Browne

  Thinking, Fbi Agents, Rights

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• For over five years this man [Winston Churchill] has been chasing around Europe like a madman in search of something he could set on fire. Unfortunately he again and again finds hirelings who open the gates of their country to this international incendiary.

  Adolf Hitler

  Country, Men, Fire

  Speech at the Reichstag, May 04, 1941. "Infamous Speeches: From Robespierre to Osama bin Laden". Book by Bob Blaisdell, 2012.

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

  Jacobo Timerman

  Peace, War, Frontiers

  Jacobo Timerman (1982). “The longest war: Israel in Lebanon”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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

  Denis Diderot

  Mad, Psychological, Harm

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• The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Stupidity, Needs, World

  Conversations with Goethe Johann Peter Eckermann 17 March (1830).

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• The poet is a madman lost in adventure.

  Paul Verlaine

  Travel, Adventure, Poet

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• 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

  Lying, Believe, Men

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.109, Univ of California Press

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• The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Orthodoxy, Lost Everything

  1908 Orthodoxy, ch.2.

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• To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

  Thomas Traherne

  Happiness, Thinking, Imagination

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