Death Quotes by William Shakespeare · Page 6

A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder.

— William Shakespeare

“Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

— William Shakespeare

Beggars mounted run their horses to death.

— William Shakespeare

Let me be boiled to death with melancholy.

— William Shakespeare

Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.

— William Shakespeare

I'll make death love me; for I will contend Even with his pestilent scythe.

— William Shakespeare

Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall die.

— William Shakespeare

The sense of death is most in apprehension.

— William Shakespeare

There is no sure foundation set on blood, No certain life achieved by others' death.

— William Shakespeare

I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.

— William Shakespeare

“Verily, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perk'd up in…

— William Shakespeare

Within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court.

— William Shakespeare

After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can…

— William Shakespeare

“For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause”

— William Shakespeare

For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life’s but breath, to trust it error.

— William Shakespeare

“But here must end the story of my life, And happy were I in my timely death Could all my travels warrant…

— William Shakespeare

I do repent; but heaven hath pleas'd it so To punish me with this, and this with me, That I must be…

— William Shakespeare

“By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death: I'll ne'er bear a base…

— William Shakespeare

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But bad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold…

— William Shakespeare

If it be aught toward the general good, Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other, And I will look…

— William Shakespeare

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which…

— William Shakespeare

Neither my place, nor aught I heard of business, Hath raised me from my bed; nor doth the general care Take hold…

— William Shakespeare

“your son has paid the soldier’s price: death. He only lived long enough to become a man, and as soon as he…

— William Shakespeare

That strain again! It had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a…

— William Shakespeare

When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I…

— William Shakespeare

Even through the hollow eyes of death I spy life peering.

— William Shakespeare

I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.

— William Shakespeare

Life... is a paradise to what we know of death.

— William Shakespeare

“Either thou or I, or both, must go with him.”

— William Shakespeare

So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men.

— William Shakespeare

For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.

— William Shakespeare

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

— William Shakespeare

Do not speak like a death's-head, do not bid me remember mine end.

— William Shakespeare

Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows

— William Shakespeare

So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

— William Shakespeare

O wretched state! o bosom black as death!

— William Shakespeare

It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

— William Shakespeare

“As you all know, Security Is Mortals chiefest Enemy.”

— William Shakespeare

Whose heart the accustom'd sight of death makes hard.

— William Shakespeare

For now they kill me with a living death.

— William Shakespeare