Top 112 Madmen Quotes & Sayings

The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.

We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans.

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

All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.

The genius of art finds sanctuary among children and madmen to survive.That is who we are.

Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.

Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.

Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.

The madmen seem to live on forever, don't they?

We must not allow the horrific actions of madmen to cut us off from our humanity.

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?

Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.

Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.

On the pavement of my trampled soul the steps of madmen weave the prints of rude crude words.

Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe.

When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats.

Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.

I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself

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.

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

In short, herein seems to lie the difference between idiots and madmen, that madmen put wrong ideas together, and so make wrong propositions, but argue and reason right from them: but idiots make very few or no propositions, and reason scarce at all.

People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen forget.

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

The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

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

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.

This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.

All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.

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

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses.

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

We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.

Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who danced in order to die.

Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.

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.

What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems to me, only, that our illusions change as we go on; but, still, we are madmen all the same.

Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the ways of madmen and men of evil counsel, at least in my judgment.

He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen.

That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say.

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.

Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.

Nations are as equal as so many madmen or drunkards.

The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.

I love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in one

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

Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor.

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.

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.

True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.

God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards.

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends.