Lunatic Quotes

• If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.

  

  Joshua Lederberg
  • Risk
  • Imagine
  • Individual

• The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Underdog
  • Lunatic
  • Wags

• Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?

  

  Beverley Nichols
  • Laughter
  • Bursting
  • Sheer

• I am a shadow’s shade, a lunatic, perhaps. Of two dark moons.

  

  Marina Tsvetaeva
  • Dark
  • Shadow
  • Moons

• Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Women
  • Lunatic
  • Disputes

• I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Found
  • Lunatic
  • Moron

• I’m a lunatic by nature, and lunatics don’t need training – they just are.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Training
  • Needs
  • Lunatic

• 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.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Inspiration
  • Liberty
  • Common Sense

• I don't know what I can do about the aging. Yes, I am aging. Oh my God, I'm aging all the time. It's like those flowers that wilt in front of you in time-lapse films. But what can I possibly do? Look like a lunatic?

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Film
  • Flower
  • Aging

• Most of my favorite people in my life are gay. It's something I'm super passionate about, because whenever I would see my friends get bullied, or my brother get hurt for his sexuality, I would become a raging lunatic.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • People
  • Life
  • Friends

• When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Man
  • Heaven
  • Asylum

• I'm a bit of lunatic with shoes and jackets and jeans. It's just how I am.

  

  Graham Coxon Blur
  • Jeans
  • Boots
  • Jackets

• Occasionally, I go off the rails. I once nearly killed somebody once - it wasn't funny. I am a lunatic. The pressure of work, the pressure - everyone has a stop valve, and I don't have one.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Pressure
  • Rail
  • Valve

• I may be a lunatic, but then, wasn't my lunacy caused by a monster that lurks at the bottom of every human mind? Those who call me a madman and spurn me may become lunatics tomorrow. They harbor the same monster.

  

  Ryunosuke Satoro
  • Mind
  • Depression
  • Tomorrow

• Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!

  

  Bram Stoker
  • Chasing
  • Lunatic
  • Escaping

• I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Musician
  • Poet
  • Rebel

• Is there a homeless guy built in to the design of Dunkin' Donuts? ...There'll be an entrance here... a deranged lunatic here.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Guy
  • Design
  • Homeless

• Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water - which is known to have lithium in it - because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston, surely the most lovable, the most human, and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Men
  • Country
  • Water

• I know that Colbert could quote Thomas Aquinas and all this, but I'm somebody who, because it's a necessity for me on a personal basis. I need it because I'm a lunatic.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Needs
  • Knows
  • Bases

• It is called in our schools 'beastliness', and this is about the best name for it... should it become a habit it quickly destroys both health and spirits; he becomes feeble in body and mind, and often ends in a lunatic asylum.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Mind
  • School
  • Health

• You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Generation
  • Rave
  • Stravinsky

• The mirror that Strindberg held up to Nature was a cracked one. It was cracked in a double sense -- it was crazy. It gave back broken images of a world which it made look like the chaos of a lunatic dream.

  

  Robert Wilson Lynd
  • Mirror
  • Images
  • Cracked

• I say, Watson,’ he whispered, ‘would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?’ ‘Not in the least,’ I answered in astonishment. ‘Ah, that’s lucky,’ he said, and not another word would he utter that night.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Man
  • Brain
  • Watson

• You may be right I may be crazy But it just may be a lunatic you're looking for.

  

  Billy Joel
  • May
  • Crazy
  • Maybe

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