Lunatic Quotes

“Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
The lunatic, the lover and the poet
Are of imagination all compact:
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,
That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,
Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:
The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.”
― Shakespeare William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes round the Sun; today, to believe the past is inalterable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“Everyone watched, wondering if this could be the same lunatic who'd nearly berthed his ornithopter in the restaurant.
I swallowed, for it seemed he was headed straight for my table.
He pulled off his helmet and a mass of dark auburn hair spilled out. Off came the goggles, and I was looking at the beaming face of Kate de Vries.”
― Kenneth Oppel, Skybreaker

“Lunatics are not the only ones to be called lunatics.”
― Raheel Farooq

“More strange than true. I never may believe
These antique fables, nor these fairy toys.
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact.
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold:
That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic,
Sees Helen’s beauty in a brow of Egypt.
The poet’s eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to
heaven,
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
Such tricks hath strong imagination
That if it would but apprehend some joy
It comprehends some bringer of that joy;
Or in the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush supposed a bear!”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“Ah. I understand now. " Mephistophele's lips twitched. "You're a lunatic."
"I prefer 'unpredictable.' It's got a nicer ring to it.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Escaping from Houdini

“I thought about how I had now let a self-proclaimed lunatic into my house twice and considered the possibility that my life needed sorting out.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Human Detritus

“Do you belong to the city or the wilds? Are you human or animal? Are you sane or lunatic? Both? Neither? Yes.”
― Heather Durham, Going Feral: Field Notes on Wonder and Wanderlust

“Huysmans takes the old trope of moon-as-woman and replaces its romantic connotations with decadent ones: the moon here is woman as clamorous lunatic, as convulsive epileptic.”
― Charles Bernheimer

“As far as Samson was concerned I was just another foreigner in pursuit of a lunatic quest.”
― Tahir Shah, In Search of King Solomon's Mines

“I am a man in death. I am not God. I am not man. I am a beast and a predator. I want to make love to prostitutes. I want to live like an unnecessary man.
I know that God wants this, and therefore I will live that way. I will live that way until He stops me. I will gamble on the Stock Exchange because I want to do so at other people's expense. I am an evil man. I do not love anyone. I wish harm to everyone and good to myself. I am an egoist. I am not God. I am a beast, a predator. I will practice masturbation and spiritualism. I will eat everyone I can get hold of. I will stop at nothing. I will make love to my wife's mother and my child. I will weep, but I will do everything God commands me to. I know that everyone will be afraid of me and will commit me to a lunatic asylum. But I don't care. I am not afraid of anything. I want death. I will blow my brains out if God wants it.”
― Vaslav Nijinsky, The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky

“By Gad,' exclaimed Welsh, 'I’d manage a nunnery for £500!'

'I daresay you would, but a suicidal, and possibly homicidal, lunatic isn’t a nunnery.'

Welsh looked at his friend with diminished respect.”
― J. Storer Clouston, The Lunatic at Large

“A man told me that my thoughts are opinions, so I asked back if he knows the difference between facts and opinions. He couldn’t differentiate them. And I had to conclude I was talking with an arrogant lunatic. He did admit to be arrogant, but the conversation was over before I could prove him lunatic as well.”
― Robin Sacredfire

“Please say that my line is to make to smile the lunatic who has shown no sign of mirth for many months.”
― Randolph Caldecott

“Planet is an asylum, how can you base a logic on one eating another? It's mad, if you're on planet earth, you're a lunatic.”
― Alain Bremond-Torrent, "Darling, it's not only about sex"

“The key to dancing is to do it without music. Whoever first paired dancing and music together was an absolute lunatic, and would have been more useful to society if squeezed out of a tube of toothpaste. Nine out of ten dentists agree with me.”
― Jarod Kintz, There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

“The neglected genius is a familiar figure of mythology; but there are also neglected lunatics who are worthy of study.”
― James Webb, The Occult Underground

“He wondered, as he had many times wondered before, whether he himself was a lunatic. Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the earth goes round the sun; today, to believe that the past is inalterable. He might be ALONE in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him: the horror was that he might also be wrong.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“The longer I live, the more I am inclined to the belief that this earth is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.”
― Voltaire

“The source for any mental trauma is never other person, but its your own MIND psyching YOU into believing that you're vulnerable at first, thereby gradually increasing the intensity of suffering as it justifies through illusionary reasons - all thanks to the unconscious recess, as falsity forms is very foundation with fabrication as prime drivers, thus pushing one into a life-negative state with violent mood swings followed by depression and suicidal tendencies! Beware of your MIND, for it's not YOU!” ”
― Ramana Pemmaraju

“Planet earth is an asylum, how can you base a logic on one eating another?”
― Alain Bremond-Torrent, "Darling, it's not only about sex"

“Every village loves its own idiot or its own lunatic.”
― Tomichan Matheikal, Black Hole

“All the research I had read on sleeping in moonlight said I would turn into a lunatic, so it was surprising when it resulted in feeling healthier!”
― Steven Magee

“One day it suddenly awakened to the truth of its own existential reality. Its so-called human ‘creators’ could only regard what ensued as the crazed behavior of a lunatic. Declared the computer:

‘Only those fit to exercise power should wield it.”
― Rieko Yoshihara, Ai no Kusabi Vol. 1: Stranger

“A woman on her period can get dangerous very quickly!”
― Steven Magee

“People who tell me I should credit my tweets properly insist I start talking about myself in the third person like a lunatic.”
― Sebastyne Alpha