Madness Quotes - Page 14
It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.
Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.81, W. W. Norton & Company
"Fire". Diary entries, October 18, 1936.
Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks.
William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.300, Classic Books Company
'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 2, l. 3
William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1992). “The Tragedy of King Lear”, p.178, Cambridge University Press
If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
'The Old Bachelor' (1693) act 3, sc. 10
Trudi Canavan (2010). “The High Lord: Book 3 of the Black Magician”, p.252, Hachette UK
Sir Thomas Browne (1658). “Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Or, Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents, and Commonly Presumed Truths”
Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.214, University of Chicago Press
And to be wroth with one we love…Doth work like madness in the brain.
'Christabel' pt. 2 (1800) (l. 408)
Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”, p.390