Definition of Lunatic

Lunatic

Affected by lunacy; insane; mad.

Of or pertaining to, or suitable for, an insane person; evincing lunacy; as, lunatic gibberish; a lunatic asylum.

A person affected by lunacy; an insane person, esp. one who has lucid intervals; a madman; a person of unsound mind.

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Lunatic Quotations

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

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

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing.
Judith Rossner

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

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Lunatic Translations

lunatic in Dutch is bezetene, gek, krankzinnige
lunatic in German is irrsinnig, Wahnsinnige
lunatic in Hungarian is elmebajos, elmebeteg
lunatic in Italian is pazza
lunatic in Norwegian is galning

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