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Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own. -- Herman Melville
Madman drummers, bummers, Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat. In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat. -- Bruce Springsteen
I'm not a madman. -- Ray Nitschke
Only the madman is absolutely sure. -- Robert Anton Wilson
I am not a madman or a nut. -- Abdul Qadeer Khan
The poet is a madman lost in adventure. -- Paul Verlaine
What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation. -- Anatole France
The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad. -- Salvador Dali
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. -- Charlotte Bronte
Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously. -- Kerry Thornley
A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman. -- Prince Philip
A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. -- Paul Valery
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer? -- Samuel Richardson
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. -- Emile M. Cioran
People call me crazy and a madman. Even 'Tasmanian Devil.' I'd rather be called the 'Tasmanian Angel.' -- Troy Polamalu
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. -- Salvador Dali
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. -- An Wang
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.' -- Graham Swift
Nicolas Cage, I would love to work with him again. He's just a fearless madman. He'll go anywhere you want to go. He would not say 'no' to anything. -- Spike Jonze
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
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. -- Antonin Artaud
I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman. -- Charles Spurgeon
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. -- Robbie Coltraine
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. -- Robbie Coltraine
Media were never allowed into an Australian dressing room until I became skipper. I changed that and invited them in at the close of play each day, thereby confirming for many administrators they had appointed a madman as captain. -- Richie Benaud
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! -- Denis Diderot
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. -- Evel Knievel
The madman is a dreamer awake -- Sigmund Freud
The dreamer is a madman quiescent, -- Frederic Henry Hedge
History is the autobiography of a madman. -- Alexander Herzen
Every madman considers everyone else a madman. -- Publilius Syrus
He who hides his madman, dies voiceless. -- Henri Michaux
The tiny madman in his padded cell. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Only a madman would give good for evil -- Euripides
The fellow is either a madman or a poet. -- Horace
A patient, methodical sort of madman. The worst kind. -- Cassandra Clare
It is pleasant at times to play the madman. -- Seneca the Younger
All because I fell in love with a madman. -- Carrie Butler
Not all novelists are power-hungry madman. Some are power-hungry madwomen. -- Pseudonymous Bosch
It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities . -- Marcus Aurelius
The logic of a madman is a sane man's confusion. -- Joe R. Lansdale
It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman. -- Seneca the Younger
That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman. -- J. D. Salinger
Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo -- Jean Cocteau
Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that. -- Irving Stone
I hold a beast, an angel and a madman within me. -- Dylan Thomas
Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out. -- Terry Pratchett
To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason... -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The madman who knows that he is mad is close to sanity. -- Juan Ruiz de Alarcon
A man with new ideas is a madman, until his ideas triumph. -- Marcelo Bielsa
Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman. -- Keith Richards
There is A madman inside of you Who is always running for office -- H?fez
The real drug is to train like a madman, really like a madman. -- Aleksandr Karelin
A madman imitates nature, but a wise man draws a metaphor from it. -- Bauvard
There is A madman inside of you Who is always running for office -- H?fez
Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel. -- Neil Gaiman
To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts. -- Henry Miller
It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman. -- Suzanne Collins
The only difference between me and a madman is that he has the certification -- Josh Stern
The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants. -- Arthur Honegger
This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart. -- Rumi
Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion. -- Benjamin Whichcote
Don't any of you realize there's only one life between that madman and the Presidency? -- Mark Hanna
Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States. -- Mick Jagger
A space station is a rangy monstrosity, a giant erector set built by a madman. -- Mary Roach
For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died. -- Miguel de Cervantes
The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad. -- Salvador Dali
A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't. -- Ajahn Chah
Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman. -- L. Ron Hubbard
Love is a madman, working his wild schemes, tearing off his clothes, running through the mountains.... -- Rumi
I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself -- Milan Kundera
Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted advisor. -- Terry Pratchett
Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision ... -- Salvador Dali
Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore. -- David Levithan
There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors. -- Andre Maurois
I'm crazy, boy. I'm a madman. I could eat both of you for dinner and love every bite. -- James Dashner
And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium. -- T. S. Eliot
When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket. -- Edgar Allan Poe
I am very active, ... I like to ride horses. I golf. I perform onstage. I am a madman onstage. -- Clay Walker
A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself. -- Terence McKenna
Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm. -- Stephen Fry
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. -- An Wang
A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions. -- Michael Moorcock
Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist. -- David Attenborough
Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman. -- Aldous Huxley
Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water! -- Kabir
The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman. -- Boris Pasternak
A dancer differeth from a madman only in length of time; one is mad so long as he liveth, the other while he danceth. -- Alphonsus Liguori
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 Singleton
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
He's got a box with a demon in it that draws pictures," said Rincewind shortly. "Do what the madman says and he will give you gold. -- Terry Pratchett
As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a little from the madman. -- Samuel Johnson
If I am mad, then who on the face of the earth is sane? If you are sane, then there is no madman in the world. -- Saib Tabrizi
Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that open to us. -- C. S. Lewis
Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd. -- Miguel de Cervantes
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
Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher; it is casting out a devil. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
I could easily blast so much keef night and day I become a bouhali; a real-gone crazy, a holy untouchable madman unto whom everything is permitted, nothing is true. -- Brion Gysin
[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. -- Antonin Artaud
Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality? -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I am not up there by chance. I am there by choice. And I know the wire. And I know my limits. And I am a madman of details. -- Philippe Petit
Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person. -- Terry Pratchett
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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
Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Conspiracy nut, leftist, madman. These are terms of dismissal so you don't have to listen to the argument. It would be healthier and more fun to hear what someone has to say. -- Oliver Stone
Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman. -- Zhuangzi
Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him. -- William Shakespeare
According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up. -- John Gerard
A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It's only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate. -- Steven Pressfield
I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jad said, "The leakage was forcing choices, the making of which in no way improved matters." Okay. So we were, in effect, locked in a room with a madman sorcerer. That clarified things a little. -- Neal Stephenson
I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without any troubles and obsessions, laughing senselessly from morning to night. -- Emile M. Cioran

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