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Madmen Quotes

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
World, Madness, Madmen

The madman is a dreamer awake

Sigmund Freud
Dreamer, Madmen, Awake

There is A madman inside of you Who is always running for office

Hafez
Running, Office, Madmen

When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are.

Robert Aickman
Difficult, Madmen, Sane
Robert Aickman (2001). “The collected strange stories”

History is the autobiography of a madman.

Alexander Herzen
Madmen, Autobiography

The real drug is to train like a madman, really like a madman.

Aleksandr Karelin
Real, Drug, Madmen

He who hides his madman, dies voiceless.

Henri Michaux
Voiceless, Madmen, Dies
Henri Michaux (1994). “Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984”, p.13, Univ of California Press

Only the madman is absolutely sure.

Robert Anton Wilson
Inspirational, Skepticism, Madmen
"The Illuminatus! Trilogy" by Robert Anton Wilson, Part I : The Eye in the Pyramid, (p. 176), 1988.

A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't.

Ajahn Chah
Madmen, Knows

We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.

Paolo Veronese
Use, Poet, Madmen
"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.

Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.

William Shakespeare
Blind, Madmen, Plague
William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (2005). “The Tragedy of King Lear”, p.207, Cambridge University Press

God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards.

Marguerite de Navarre
Lovers, Helping, Madmen
"Heptaméron". Book by Marguerite de Navarre, Novel XXXVIII, 1558.

When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.

Edgar Allan Poe
Madmen, Jackets, Sane
Edgar Allan Poe (1984). “Poetry and Tales”, p.713, Library of America

Not all novelists are power-hungry madman. Some are power-hungry madwomen.

Pseudonymous Bosch
Novelists, Hungry, Madmen

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

Anatole France
Literature, Conversation, Madmen
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

I'd rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free.

David Bowie
Insanity, Roaming, Madmen
Song: All The Madmen, Album: The Man Who Sold the World, 1970

Don't any of you realize there's only one life between that madman and the Presidency?

Mark Hanna
Government, Realizing, Madmen

Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo

Jean Cocteau
Madmen
Opium: The Diary of a Cure (1930)

We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen.

Jacobo Timerman
Peace, War, Madmen
Jacobo Timerman (1982). “The longest war: Israel in Lebanon”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.

Henry Miller
World, Ghost, Madmen
Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.31, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Nations are as equal as so many madmen or drunkards.

Fritz Leiber
Equal, Madmen, Drunkards
Fritz Leiber (2015). “The Big Time: Top Science Fiction”, p.16, 谷月社

The dreamer is a madman quiescent, the madman is a dreamer in action.

Frederic Henry Hedge
Dreamer, Action, Madmen

I am not a madman or a nut.

Abdul Qadeer Khan
Nuts, Madmen

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

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

It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities .

Marcus Aurelius
Madmen, Pursue, Impossibility

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