(20 quotes found)
“There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.”
Salvador Dalí
“The tiny madman in his padded cell.”
Vladimir Nabokov
“One man with an idea in his head is in danger of being considered a madman: two men with the same idea in common may be foolish, but can hardly be mad; ten men sharing an idea begin to act, a hundred draw attention as fanatics, a thousand and society begins to tremble, a hundred thousand and there is war abroad, and the cause has victories tangible and real; and why only a hundred thousand? Why not a hundred million and peace upon the earth? You and I who agree together, it is we who have to answer that question.”
William Morris
“The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad”
“Only the madman is absolutely sure”
Robert Anton Wilson
“Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!”
Kabir
“Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.”
Logan Pearsall Smith
“The very word euthanasia is never used because of the madman Hitler.”
Dr. Pieter V. Admiraal
“There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.”
Charlotte Bronte
“For if he like a madman lived, at least he like a wise one died.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra