Madmen Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mind, Normal, Calm

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.62, Scholastic Inc.

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• Could there be irony crueler than this? How, upon his rescue, the truth had brought him here, to a house for the mad, for only a madman believes what every child knows to be true: There are monsters that lie in wait under our beds.

  Rick Yancey

  Children, Lying, Believe

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman.

  Tim Robbins

  Feet, Issues, Important

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• The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.

  Terence McKenna

  Men, Sick, Mind Blowing

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• He knew that he was the stuff of which fanatics and madmen are made and that he had turned his destiny as if with his bare will. He kept himself upright on a very narrow line between madness and emptiness and when the time came for him to lose his balance he intended to lurch toward emptiness and fall on the side of his choice.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Fall, Destiny, Choices

  Flannery O'Connor (1983). “Three by Flannery O'Connor: Wise blood, The violent bear it away, Everything that rises must converge”, Signet Classics

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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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• This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart.

  Rumi

  Broken Heart, Spiritual, Tired

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.36, Penguin UK

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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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• The other one he loved like a slave, like a madman and like a beggar. Why? Ask the dust on the road and the falling leaves, ask the mysterious God of life; for no one knows such things. She gave him nothing, no nothing did she give him and yet he thanked her. She said: Give me your peace and your reason! And he was only sorry she did not ask for his life.

  Knut Hamsun

  Sorry, Fall, Dust

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• He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.

  Vasily Grossman

  Endurance, Characteristics, Simpletons

  Vasily Grossman (2011). “Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.11, Random House

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• Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Thinking, Mad

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• 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.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Should Have, Mad, Fancy

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.260, University of Illinois Press

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• You run back and forth listening for unusual events, peering into the faces of travelers. "Why are you looking at me like a madman?" I have lost a friend. Please forgive me.

  Rumi

  Running, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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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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• A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,’ said he. ‘Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Men, Mad, Laughing

  Rafael Sabatini (2015). “Captain Blood: Story Pirates”, p.59, 谷月社

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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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• It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman.

  Seneca the Younger

  Sometimes, Mental Illness, Pleasant

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• Let's sum up: an unknown number of enemies with unknown capabilities, supported by a gang of madmen, packs of attack animals, and superhumanly intelligent pocket change.

  Jim Butcher

  Animal, Intelligent, Numbers

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.2105, Penguin

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• Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Truth, Lying, Honor

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• I may be a lunatic, but then, wasn't my lunacy caused by a monster that lurks at the bottom of every human mind? Those who call me a madman and spurn me may become lunatics tomorrow. They harbor the same monster.

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

  Depression, Mind, Monsters

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• Don't believe stories which you see in the papers about troops asking as a special privilege not to be relieved. We stick it, at all costs if necessary, as long as ordered, but everyone's glad to hand over to someone else. And anyone who says he enjoys this kind of thing is either a liar or a madman.

  Harry Yoxall

  War, Liars, Believe

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• If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass of folly, and a base injustice; morality is moonshine; our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!

  Adam Sedgwick

  Lying, Science, Men

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• So there I was being strangled by a ranting, half-naked madman in the middle of the woods, with a she-werewolf dangling from a rope snare somewhere nearby.

  Jim Butcher

  Naked, Rope, Half

  Jim Butcher (2001). “Fool Moon: Book two of The Dresden Files”, p.94, Penguin

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