Lunatic Quotes

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
C. S. Lewis

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith, Through, Shows

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
William Shakespeare

Lover, Poet, Compact

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
Theodore Roosevelt

Movement, Reform, Fringe

My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.
Spike Milligan

Father, Influence, Profound

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?
George Orwell

Yourself, Against, Fair

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
Thomas Paine

Whole, Religious, Modern

My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either.
Christopher Hitchens

Used, Either, View

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
Havelock Ellis

Place, Optimism, Asylum

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
Ezra Pound

Guess, Definition, Surrounded

I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around.
Billy Corgan

Around, Songs, Fans

I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.
John Malkovich

For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity.
James Buchan

Power, Future, Making

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.
Roberto Bolano

Same, Away, Everyone

Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.
Annie Dillard

Family, Mother, Father

I swear to God, if you saw me when I am by myself in the woods, I'm a lunatic. I sing, I dance.
Chris Evans

God, Dance, Sing

I'm just some lunatic macaroni mushroom, is that it?
Joe Pesci

Mushroom, Macaroni

When I was 26, 27 years old I was running a kitchen in New York, and I was a raving lunatic. The older you get, you figure out you don't need to do that. You realize at a certain point, there's a certain gravity to what you say and what you do. If that's not enough, all the yelling in the world is not going to matter.
Tom Colicchio

Enough, Old, Matter

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

Great, Men, Freedom

What the Internet's value is that you have access to information but you also have access to every lunatic that's out there that wants to throw up a blog.
George A. Romero

Value, Wants, Internet

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

Shoes, Bit, Jeans

Why does this person who is sitting behind a desk and never watches cartoons is arguing about what cartoons should be like. Its so creepy realizing that this person is a lunatic.
Jhonen Vasquez

Person, Why, Behind

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

Society, Single, Whole

I wanted to play a good guy after doing this lunatic on The Sopranos for two years. And then they did the sequel to Bad Boys, where I get to play the barking captain again.
Joe Pantoliano

My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles.
Emma Stone

Funny, Mom, Parents

Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming.
Lord Mountbatten

Crazy, Sweet, Charming

The thing about New York is you can leave your house without a plan and find the day. You can't do that in Los Angeles. You need to get in your car, all this, you can't just drive around like a lunatic. In New York, you can literally walk outside, and wind up anywhere.
Michael Rapaport

Car, Find, Around

God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.
Garrett Fort

Great, God, Evil

Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing.
Judith Rossner

Writers, Publishing, Fringe

If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.
Kerry Thornley

Religion, Masses, Opium

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