Lunatic Quotes

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. (Havelock Ellis)
My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic. View quote
Spike Milligan
If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone. View quote
Roberto Bolaño
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. View quote
Thomas Paine
I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more. View quote
Margaret Atwood
I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy? View quote
George Orwell
Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
The lunatic fringe wags the underdog. View quote
H. L. Mencken
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact. (William Shakespeare)
Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types. View quote
Umberto Eco
The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars. View quote
Umberto Eco
What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." View quote
Jimmy Wales
you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for. View quote
Billy Joel
From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity. View quote
Dean Koontz
But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong. View quote
George Orwell
Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. View quote
George Orwell
I do not oppose the insane asylum-but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs man of his reason, drives him to insanity and makes the lunatic asylum an indispensable adjunct to every civilized community. View quote
Eugene V. Debs
Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and always discrediting it - the men who form the lunatic fringe in all reform movements. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail. (Bhagat Singh)
In a face, look for the main light and the main shadow; the rest will come naturally - it's often not important. And then you must cultivate your memory, because Nature will only provide you with references. Nature is like a warden in a lunatic asylum. It stops you from becoming banal. View quote
Édouard Manet
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilization, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides? View quote
Mark Twain