Lunatic Quotes - Page 2

• The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

  Havelock Ellis

  Depression, Optimism, Psychology

  Dance of Life (1923) ch. 3

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• Trump is clearly very loose and very aggressive. He's a loose, aggressive wild man. He's hard to prepare for because he's a lunatic.

  Daniel Negreanu

  Men, Aggressive

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.

  Henry Miller

  Sports, Suicide, Fashion

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.177, New Directions Publishing

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• The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

  Thomas Paine

  Religious, Bipolar, Religion

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• Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming.

  Lord Mountbatten

  Sweet, Crazy, Aunt

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• But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.

  George Orwell

  Might, Horror, Trouble

  George Orwell (2016). “1984”, p.90, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• Idiot! Lunatic! Moron! Jackass! Selfish irresponsible fool!

  Stephenie Meyer

  Selfish, Fool, Idiot

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• My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles.

  Emma Stone

  Mom, Goal, Parent

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• There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Would Be, Lunatic Asylums

  Richard Isadore Evans, Carl Gustav Jung, Ernest Jones (1964). “Conversations with Carl [Gustav] Jung and reactions from Ernest Jones”, Princeton, N.J., Van Nostrand

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• Religion is the opium of the masses.

  Karl Marx

  Weed, Atheist, Fear

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• Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on a pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could have confirmed the diagnosis. The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum.

  Havelock Ellis

  Religious, Jesus, Careers

  Impressions and Comments 5 January (1922)

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• My father was my greatest inspiration. He was a lunatic.

  Spike Milligan

  Father, Inspiration

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• The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

  Rebecca West

  Women, Differences, Idiot

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• If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.

  Kerry Thornley

  Weed, Marijuana, Religion

  The Introduction to the 5th Edition of "Principia Discordia" by Kerry Thornley, 1963.

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• The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

  William James

  Lonely, Civilization, Agony

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.158, Booklassic

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• When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Lying, Madness, Knows

  "Fictional character: Cervantes". "Man of La Mancha" by Dale Wasserman, 1965.

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• There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterately dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally pursued. Sorrowfully, but remorselessly, it must be recognized that he has become lunatic, morally demented, incapable of self-government, and that upon him, therefore, must be passed the sentence of permanent seclusion from a world in which he is not fit to be at large.

  William Booth

  Passion, Men, Self

  William Booth (1890). “In Darkest England, and the Way Out”, Bryce

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• 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. A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn't the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn't flat. 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, Self

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• My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.

  Spike Milligan

  Funny, Fathers Day, Dad

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• From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.

  Dean Koontz

  Self, Mad, Doubt

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.81, Bantam

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• Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.

  Aldous Huxley

  Intelligent, Men, World

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Texts & pretexts: an anthology with commentaries”

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• It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine.

  Ilka Chase

  War, Machines, World

  Ilka Chase (1948). “Free Admission”

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• There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.

  George Orwell

  Funny, Clever, Smart

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.344, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness ...Maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Dream, Lying, May

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• Every broken lunatic needed a theme song.

  Scott Nicholson

  Song, Broken, Theme

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