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Had I but died an hour before this chance,
I had liv’d a blessed time; for, from this instant
There’s nothing serious in mortality.
All is but toys: renown and grace is dead;
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act II, Scene III, spoken by MacbethIn context
Duncan is in his grave;
After life’s fitful fever he sleeps well;
Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison,
Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing
Can touch him further.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act III, Scene II, spoken by MacbethIn context
Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act IV, Scene V, spoken by CapuletIn context
Eyes, look your last.
Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act V, Scene III, spoken by RomeoIn context
- Love
As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods,
They kill us for their sport.
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (c. 1606), Act IV, Scene I, spoken by GloucesterIn context
- God
Men must endure
Their going hence, even as their coming hither;
Ripeness is all.
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (c. 1606), Act V, Scene II, spoken by EdgarIn context
- Maturity
Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stone.
Had I your tongues and eyes, I’ld use them so
That heaven’s vault should crack. She’s gone for ever!
I know when one is dead, and when one lives;
She’s dead as earth.
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (c. 1606), Act V, Scene III, spoken by LearIn context
Put out the light, and then put out the light
William Shakespeare1564–1616Othello (c. 1604), Act V, Scene II, spoken by OthelloIn context
I kiss’d thee ere I kill’d thee. No way but this,
Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Othello (c. 1604), Act V, Scene II, spoken by OthelloIn context
- Love
O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Julius Caesar (1599), Act III, Scene I, spoken by AntonyIn context
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Julius Caesar (1599), Act III, Scene II, spoken by AntonyIn context
- Good & Evil
Full fathom five thy father lies.
Of his bones are coral made.
Those are pearls that were his eyes.
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Tempest (c. 1611), Act I, Scene II, spoken by ArielIn context
- Change
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,
A stage, where every man must play a part,
And mine a sad one.
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Merchant of Venice (c. 1597), Act I, Scene I, spoken by AntonioIn context
- Acting
I am sure care’s an enemy to life.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Twelfth Night (c. 1601), Act I, Scene III, spoken by Sir TobyIn context
- Happiness
Come away, come away, death.
And in sad cypress let me be laid.
Fly away, fly away, breath;
I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Twelfth Night (c. 1601), Act II, Scene IV, spoken by DukeIn context
- Love