Lunatic Quotes

• A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Wisdom, Atheist

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  83 Copy quote

  Show source

• A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn't be a great moral teacher. He'd be either a lunatic on a level with a man who says he's a poached egg or else he'd be the devil of hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.

  C. S. Lewis

  Teacher, Jesus, Son

  80 Copy quote

• The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Lunatic Asylums, Used, Planets

  125 Copy quote

• Strange times are these, in which we live, forsooth ;
  When young and old are taught in Falsehood's school:–
  And the man who dares to tell the truth,
  Is called at once a lunatic and fool.

  George Francis Train

  Peace, Fear, Truth

  22 Copy quote

• I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.

  John Malkovich

  Fabric, Littles, Bits

  "Wearing John Malkovich" by Teo Kermeliotis and Rosie Tomkins, www.cnn.com. January 21, 2010.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Insanity, Philosopher, Delusional

  12 Copy quote

• My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Views, Lunatic Asylums, Planets

  "God Is Not Great". Book by Christopher Hitchens, www.theguardian.com. 2011.

  67 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Despair, Criminals

  4 Copy quote

• I may have been a complete lunatic, but I was a complete lunatic with manners.

  Maureen Johnson

  May, Manners, Has Beens

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.68, Penguin

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Disputes

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1824). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare ...”, p.29

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.

  Donald James

  Truth, Lying, Democracies Have

  30 Copy quote

• I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

  Ezra Pound

  Men, Definitions, Pounds

  "Language, Sexuality, and Ideology in Ezra Pound's Cantos". Book by Jean-Michel Rabate, Jean-Michel Rabaté (p. 142), 1986.

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Carpe Diem, Imagination Creativity

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Presidential, Political, Reform

  71 Copy quote

• You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one.

  George Orwell

  Minorities

  George Orwell (2012). “1984”, p.89, Oberon Books

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

  George Orwell

  Intelligent, Giving, Atheism

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.354, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.

  George Orwell

  Insanity, Minorities, Lunacy

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I feel myself acting like a lunatic, but I can't stop. It would be like refusing to breathe.

  Veronica Roth

  Acting, Would Be, Breathe

  4 Copy quote

• The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.

  H. L. Mencken

  Inspirational, Funny, Underdog

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.622, Vintage

  41 Copy quote

  Show source

• The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.

  Donald James

  Self, Perfect, Historical

  48 Copy quote

• The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Military, Believe, Army

  Orthodoxy (1908) ch. 2

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for

  Billy Joel

  Crazy, May, Might

  10 Copy quote

• You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

  C. S. Lewis

  Teacher, Jesus, Easter

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.289, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

  218 Copy quote

  Show source

• A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Funny, Faith, Witty

  "The Antichrist". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888.

  36 Copy quote

  Show source

• A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Baby, Children

  13 Copy quote