Quotes About Madness Shakespeare

#1. Love is merely a madness.

William Shakespeare

#2. For to define true madness,
What is't but to be nothing else but mad?

William Shakespeare

#3. Like madness is the glory of life.

William Shakespeare

#4. My wits begin to turn.

William Shakespeare

#5. My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
Shakes so my single state of man
That function is smothered in surmise,
And nothing is but what is not.

William Shakespeare

#6. Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs; being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears; what is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall, and a preserving sweet.

William Shakespeare

#7. Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

William Shakespeare

#8. Jessie had never heard you could inherit madness. She thought madness was something that just happened to people in Shakespeare when the wind got up.

Lynne Truss

#9. Love is ... a madness most discreet

William Shakespeare

#10. Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

William Shakespeare

#11. Mad I call it, for to define true madness, what is't to be nothing else but mad?

William Shakespeare

#12. They think thee mad? I'll show thou mad, my lord.

Phar West Nagle

#13. O! That way madness lies.

William Shakespeare

#14. 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 punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so
ordinary that the whippers are in love too.

William Shakespeare

#15. Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones!

William Shakespeare

#16. Riotous madness,
To be entangled with those mouth-made vows,
Which break themselves in swearing!

William Shakespeare

#17. Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men
When for so slight and frivolous a cause
Such factious emulations shall arise!

William Shakespeare

#18. Why, this is very midsummer madness.

William Shakespeare

#19. How pregnant sometimes his replies are. A happiness that often madness hits on, which reason and sanity could not so prosperously be delivered of.

William Shakespeare

#20. Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.

Emilie Autumn

#21. I like him not, nor stands it safe with us
To let his madness range. Therefore prepare you;
I your commission will forthwith dispatch,
And he to England shall along with you:
The terms of our estate may not endure
Hazard so dangerous as doth hourly grow
Out of his lunacies.

William Shakespeare

#22. But these people _announced_ their madness ... they flaunted their insanity, they weren't half mad and half not, curled around a door frame. They were properly mad in the Shakespearean sense, talking sense when you least expected it.

Zadie Smith

#23. Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.

William Shakespeare

#24. Like madness is the glory of this life.

William Shakespeare

#25. We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these poets bring us fire and light.

Harold Bloom

#26. I kept seeing Yolanda on the parquet, two men pinning her to the ground, her eyes loaded with hatred and madness combing her hair. I was stormed by her image and my heart could not bear it. We know so little about people. But about the people we love, we know even less.

Nicholas Shakespeare

#27. Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks.

William Shakespeare

#28. If I could mimic the dynamic of any Shakespearean marriage, I'd choose to mimic the Macbeths - before the murder, ruthless ambition, and torturous descents into madness and death, that is.

Jillian Keenan

#29. (aside) Oh, you are well tuned now,
But I'll set down the pegs that make this music,
As honest as I am.

William Shakespeare

#30. +"There is method in my madness."~Hamlet

William Shakespeare