Madmen Quotes
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.
On the pavement of my trampled soul the steps of madmen weave the prints of rude crude words.
I love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in one
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends.
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.
The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.
What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems to me, only, that our illusions change as we go on; but, still, we are madmen all the same.
When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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.
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.
We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen.
Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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.
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.
Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.
He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.
This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses.
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.
Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe.
