Lunatic Quotes - Page 9

• But looking at this closet, so nice and arranged with their crazy lives at rest among these carefully placed clothes and footwear, she felt good about where they were. "Normal" was not a bad things in this lunatic world; it really was. No matter how it happened to be defined.

  J.R. Ward

  Crazy, Nice, Clothes

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• Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes round the Sun; today, to believe the past is inalterable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.

  George Orwell

  Believe, Past, Minorities

  "Nineteen Eighty-Four". Book by George Orwell, 1949.

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• We punch people, Valkyrie. That’s who we are. Embrace your inner lunatic. Fun times guaranteed.

  Derek Landy

  Fun, People, Who We Are

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• I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Stars, Believe, Men

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• When we were small, Rose and I used to play a game called connect the dots. I loved it. I loved drawing a line from dot number 1 to dot number 2 and so on. Most of all, I loved the moment when the chaotic sprinkle of dots resolved itself into a picture. That's what stories do. They connect the random dots of life into a picture. But it's all an illusion. Just try to connect the dots of life. You'll end up with a lunatic scribble.

  Franny Billingsley

  Games, Play, Drawing

  Franny Billingsley (2011). “Chime”, p.45, Penguin

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• It is you!" the man exclaimed. "We thought you weren't coming for another week!" "Ashe," Sarene mumbled, "who is this lunatic and what does he want with me?

  Brandon Sanderson

  Men, Doe, Want

  Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.56, Macmillan

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• If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance to the blindness of male drive the aggressive society will run to its lunatic extremes at ever-escalating speed. Who will safeguard the despised animal faculties of compassion, empathy, innocence and sensuality?

  Germaine Greer

  Running, Compassion, Animal

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, Child Of God

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• And I know your next move, I watch you so much, 'There's been no proven link between the secular state of Iraq and al-Qaeda!' Come on. They both think we're Satan. Isn't that a nice starting point? Why are you so loathe to believe they might have each other on lunatic speed dial?

  Dennis Miller

  Nice, Believe, Moving

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• They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Feelings, Stones, Fool

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1981). “Don Quixote”, Signet Classics

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• Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!

  Bram Stoker

  Escaping, Naked, Bees

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula”, p.88, Zillmann Publishing

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• Everyone watched, wondering if this could be the same lunatic who'd nearly berthed his ornithopter in the restaurant. I swallowed, for it seemed he was headed straight for my table. He pulled off his helmet and a mass of dark auburn hair spilled out. Off came the goggles, and I was looking at the beaming face of Kate de Vries.

  Kenneth Oppel

  Dark, Hair, Goggles

  Kenneth Oppel (2009). “Skybreaker”, p.47, Harper Collins

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• Does it ever occur to you, Mama, that my grandfather is a lunatic?

  Georgette Heyer

  Grandfather, Doe, Mama

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• When I cease to preach salvation by faith in Jesus put me into a lunatic asylum, for you may be sure that my mind is gone.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Mind, Gone

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Herein lies a riddle: How can a people so gifted by God become so seduced by naked power, so greedy for money, so addicted to violence, so slavish before mediocre and treacherous leadership, so paranoid, deluded, lunatic?

  Philip Berrigan

  Lying, Tyrants, People

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• The body ages. grows. passes through near-lunatic phases of reproductive frenzy, but you are born and die essentially the same person. That... that is proof of your deathless soul.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Soul, Age, Phases

  "Doomed". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, October 8, 2013.

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• I'm a bit of lunatic with shoes and jackets and jeans. It's just how I am.

  Graham Coxon

  Jeans, Shoes, Boots

  Designer Magazine Interview, designermagazine.tripod.com.

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• People are mostly sane enough, of course, in the affairs of common life: the getting of food, shelter, and so on. But the moment they attempt any depth or generality of thought, they go mad almost infallibly. The vast majority, of course, adopt the local religious madness, as naturally as they adopt the local dress. But the more powerful minds will, equally infallibly, fall into the worship of some intelligent and dangerous lunatic, such as Plato, or Augustine, or Comte, or Hegel, or Marx.

  David Stove

  Religious, Powerful, Plato

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• One of the things about leadership is that you cannot be a moderate, balanced, thoughtful, careful articulator of policy. You've got to be on the lunatic fringe.

  Jack Welch

  Thoughtful, Fringe, Careful

  Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

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• I don't know what I can do about the aging. Yes, I am aging. Oh my God, I'm aging all the time. It's like those flowers that wilt in front of you in time-lapse films. But what can I possibly do? Look like a lunatic?

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Flower, Lapses, Looks

  "Why We Love Sarah Jessica Parker" by Maggie Bullock, www.elle.com. December 2, 2010.

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• I always think I could play a fantastic psychopath. I'd like to play a psycho. With a heart, you know. A caring lunatic.

  Nick Frost

  Heart, Caring, Thinking

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• Occasionally, I go off the rails. I once nearly killed somebody once - it wasn't funny. I am a lunatic. The pressure of work, the pressure - everyone has a stop valve, and I don't have one.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Pressure, Valve, Rail

  Source: www.levity.com

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• Ask a glass of water why it pities
  the rain. Ask the lunatic yard dog why it tolerates the leash.

  Terrance Hayes

  Dog, Rain, Glasses

  Terrance Hayes (2010). “Lighthead”, p.14, Penguin

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• The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.

  Mandell Creighton

  Education, Men, Lunatic Asylums

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• Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water - which is known to have lithium in it - because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston, surely the most lovable, the most human, and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced.

  Molly Ivins

  Country, Fun, Men

  "The Fun’s in the Fight" by Molly Ivins, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1993.

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