Suffering Quotes by William Shakespeare

Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

— William Shakespeare

Take pains. Be perfect.

— William Shakespeare

The eagle suffers little birds to sing.

— William Shakespeare

One pain is lessened by another's anguish.

— William Shakespeare

Suffer love! A good ephitet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.

— William Shakespeare

O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer!

— William Shakespeare

Suffer love; a good epithet! I do suffer love, indeed, for I love thee against my will.

— William Shakespeare

Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?

— William Shakespeare

A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.

— William Shakespeare

One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.

— William Shakespeare

It is silliness to live when to live is torment.

— William Shakespeare

“But I am bound upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears do scald like moulten lead.”

— William Shakespeare

And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy…

— William Shakespeare

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from…

— William Shakespeare

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea…

— William Shakespeare

I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer…

— William Shakespeare

We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.

— William Shakespeare

“One pain is lessened by another’s anguish. ... Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the…

— William Shakespeare

Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden.

— William Shakespeare

When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin…

— William Shakespeare

But there is no such man; for, brother, men Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel;…

— William Shakespeare

“Tis good for men to love their present pains Upon example; so the spirit is eas'd : And when the mind is…

— William Shakespeare

Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes…

— William Shakespeare

O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel (Who had no doubt some noble creature in her)…

— William Shakespeare

He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer The worst that man can breathe, and make his wrongs His outsides, to wear them…

— William Shakespeare

The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his…

— William Shakespeare

Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward…

— William Shakespeare

Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him…

— William Shakespeare

Milk-livered man, That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs; Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning Thine…

— William Shakespeare

To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows…

— William Shakespeare

Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make…

— William Shakespeare

A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.

— William Shakespeare

Where the greater malady is fixed, The lesser is scarce felt.

— William Shakespeare

To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

— William Shakespeare

It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our…

— William Shakespeare

Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind…

— William Shakespeare

But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In…

— William Shakespeare

I do oppose My patience to his fury, and am arm'd To suffer, with a quietness of spirit, The very tyranny and…

— William Shakespeare

Who alone suffers suffers most i' th' mind, Leaving free things and happy shows behind; But then the mind much sufferance doth…

— William Shakespeare

I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma,…

— William Shakespeare