quotes about Madmen
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A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't.
-- Ajahn Chah -
The real drug is to train like a madman, really like a madman.
-- Aleksandr Karelin -
History is the autobiography of a madman.
-- Alexander Herzen -
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He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.
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Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.
-- Anne Rice -
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Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
The dreamer is a madman quiescent, the madman is a dreamer in action.
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Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.
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He who hides his madman, dies voiceless.
-- Henri MichauxSource : Henri Michaux (1994). “Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984”, p.13, Univ of California Press
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To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.
-- Henry MillerSource : Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.31, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
-- Irving Stone -
We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen.
-- Jacobo TimermanSource : Jacobo Timerman (1982). “The longest war: Israel in Lebanon”, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
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.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities .
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Don't any of you realize there's only one life between that madman and the Presidency?
-- Mark Hanna -
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For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.
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I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself
-- Milan Kundera -
We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.
-- Paolo VeroneseSource : "Venice, the Place and the People: Salve Venetia; Gleanings from Venetian History, Vol. 2". Book by Francis Marion Crawford, Macmillan, p. 32, "Report of the sitting of the Tribunal of the Inquisition on Saturday July eighteenth, 1573" transl. by Charles Yriarte, 1909.
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Not all novelists are power-hungry madman. Some are power-hungry madwomen.
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When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are.
-- Robert AickmanSource : Robert Aickman (2001). “The collected strange stories”
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Only the madman is absolutely sure.
-- Robert Anton WilsonSource : "The Illuminatus! Trilogy" by Robert Anton Wilson, Part I : The Eye in the Pyramid, (p. 176), 1988.
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Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
-- Samuel Richardson -
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He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.
-- Vasily GrossmanSource : Vasily Grossman (2011). “Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.11, Random House
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The madman who knows that he is mad is close to sanity.
-- Juan Ruiz de Alarcon -
God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards.
-- Marguerite de NavarreSource : "Heptaméron". Book by Marguerite de Navarre, Novel XXXVIII, 1558.
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I am very active, ... I like to ride horses. I golf. I perform onstage. I am a madman onstage.
-- Clay Walker -
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Nations are as equal as so many madmen or drunkards.
-- Fritz LeiberSource : Fritz Leiber (2015). “The Big Time: Top Science Fiction”, p.16, 谷月社
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Gilles Deleuze believed that every society needed a madman so we could feel better about ourselves. I do my best to fill that role.
-- George SingletonSource : Source: therumpus.net