No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet. Hamlet refuses to make straightforward distinctions between madness and sanity, or between reality and pretense. Hamlet says this to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. When the Ghost tells Hamlet about Claudius’s murder, Hamlet responds strangely: he tells his friend Horatio and the watchman Marcellus that he is going to pretend to be mad. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. The more emotional Pathans are powerless to resist. I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. Reality is what you see. Hamlet quotes on madness. The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means. It’s you or me amplified. Quotes tagged as "madness-and-sanity" Showing 1-30 of 42 “I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow me into my own madness, again.” ― Nicole Lyons, Hush.
What can everyone do? And they have no respect for the status quo. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide. A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith. We saw the same sunset. The troublemakers. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.”, “Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.”, “There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. You're only given a little spark of madness. He has no obvious reason to fake insanity, and Horatio, at least, seems to think that Hamlet is already behaving strangely: he describes Hamlet’s words as ‘wild and whirling’ (I.v.132). "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. There is always some madness in love. I’m not like an ordinary world. The troublemakers. Jealousy is bred in doubts. “The nutritionist said I should eat root vegetables. Dear Quote Investigator: It’s foolish to repeat ineffective actions. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do. As the play continues, Hamlet behaves more and more eccentrically, and neither the audience nor Hamlet’s other characters can be certain whether Hamlet is pretending or not. There was never a genius without a tincture of madness. Hamlet directs these lines to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Hamlet directs these lines to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Madness Quotes. The misfits. But there is also always some reason in madness. Here Hamlet refers to the metaphysical distinction between the king's physical body and the body of the state for which he serves as the head. Madness is not to be despised and not to be feared, but instead you should give it life...If you want to find paths, you should also not spurn madness, since it makes up such a great part of your nature...Be glad that you can recognize it, for you will thus avoid becoming its victim. They're not fond of rules. I went through all that madness early on. The second is with young men who seduce young women but don’t marry them. Money is our madness, our vast collective madness. But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? The problem, then, is that if subjective worlds are experienced too differently, there occurs a breakdown in communication ... and there is the real illness.”, “First sign of madness, talking to your own head.”, “And how do you know that you're mad? While this may not seem beneficial, it is. In her madness, Ophelia sings snatches of songs, most of which sound like popular songs of Shakespeare’s day. These words also contain a warning. There was a scary two years where it was madness because I was really in trouble with the taxman.