Madman Quotes

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

My own judgment of how the world is gonna end is that there will be a country led by a madman that will build a nuclear bomb with so much force, so much power, that it will be dropped somewhere on the face of this earth and that the earth will lose its place.

Only the madman is absolutely sure.

Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously.

I'm not a madman.

I am not a madman or a nut.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.

Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.

The poet is a madman lost in adventure.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!

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.