“We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a...” – Rosencrantz, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead ... Movie Quotes Database

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A scene from Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead 1991

Rosencrantz Gary Oldman

We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?

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Rosencrantz Be happy – if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on. Rosencrantz To sum up: your father, whom you love, dies, you are his heir, you come back to find that hardly was the corpse cold before his young brother popped onto his throne and into his sheets, thereby offending both legal and natural practice. Now why exactly are you behaving in this extraordinary manner? Guildenstern The scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear.