Every madman considers everyone else a madman.
The madman is a dreamer awake
This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart.
The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!
Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted advisor.
Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman. . . Which is probably the same thing!
Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
The fool sees naught but folly; and the madman only madness. Yesterday I asked a foolish man to count the fools among us. He laughed and said, "This is too hard a thing to do, and it will take too long. Were it not better to count only the wise?"
The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision.
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated.
A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't.
To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.
The tiny madman in his padded cell.
History is the autobiography of a madman.
The fellow is either a madman or a poet.
If I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I can't, as a Christian, simply wait for the catastrophe, then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I must try to wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver.
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out.
