madness Quotes

“Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason.”

― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

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“But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself, and, by heavens! I tell you, it had gone mad.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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“Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go.”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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“Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do: and the reason why they are not so punished and cured is, that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.”

― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

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“Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men, when for so slight and frivolous a cause such factious emulations shall arise!”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VI

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“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”

― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

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“This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.”

― William Shakespeare, King Lear

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“people who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.”

― Stephen King, The Stand

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“Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“Mad are thy subjects all, and even the wisest heart Straight to folly will fall, at a touch of thy poisoned dart.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

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