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Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods or to reside In thrilling regions of

Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world.

William Shakespeare
Death, Lying, Ice
'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 114

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

William Shakespeare
Death, Country, Long Love
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.

William Shakespeare
Death, Grief, Enemy
William Shakespeare (1797). “The plays of William Shakspeare...”, p.275

He that dies this year is quit for the next.

William Shakespeare
Death, Years, Next
'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. [257]

Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries.

William Shakespeare
Death, Men, Umpires
William Shakespeare (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: King Henry VI, part first. King Henry VI, part second. King Henry VI, part third. A dissertation on the three parts of King Henry VI. King Richard III. Vol. 6”, p.46

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven.

William Shakespeare
Death, Lying, Heaven
'All's Well that Ends Well' (1603-4) act 1, sc. 1, l. [235]

Tired with all these, for restful death I cry.

William Shakespeare
Death, Tired, Cry
Sonnet 66

What is thy sentence then but speechless death.

William Shakespeare
Death, Speechless, Sentences
William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1858). “Winter's tale. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1. King Henry IV, part 2. Henry V. King Henry VI, part 1”, p.233

If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee.

William Shakespeare
Death, Art, Journey
William Shakespeare, Charles Knight (1843). “The Complete Works of W. Shakspere: Illustrated with Many Valuable Literary Notes from Johnson, Steevens, Malone, Drake, Chalmers, Coleridge, Lamb, Schlegel, Hazlitt, Ch. Knight, and Other Distinguished Commentators with Large Introductory Notices Prefixed to Each Play ...”

Let me be boiled to death with melancholy.

William Shakespeare
Death, Melancholy, Let Me
William Shakespeare, Thomas BOWDLER (F.R.S.) (1831). “The Family Shakspeare ... By T. Bowdler ... Sixth Edition”, p.72

Sweets to the sweet.

William Shakespeare
Death, Sweet
'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [265]

And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.

William Shakespeare
Death, Kings, Stories
1595 Richard. Richard II, act 3, sc.2, l.148-50.

But I will be, A bridegroom in my death, and run into't As to a lover's bed.

William Shakespeare
Death, Running, Bed
'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 4, sc. 12, l. 99

The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.

William Shakespeare
Death, Giants, Poor
'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 75

... And death unloads thee.

William Shakespeare
Death, Thee
'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 25

This fell sergeant, Death, Is strict in his arrest.

William Shakespeare
Death, Hamlet Death, Strict
William Shakespeare (1809). “The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators, to which are added notes by S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised and augmented by I. Reed, with a glossarial index”, p.283

Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come

William Shakespeare
Death, Fate, Ides Of March
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.

William Shakespeare
Death, Gone, Hamlet And Ophelia
'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [29]

Though Death be poor, it ends a mortal woe.

William Shakespeare
Death, Woe, Poor
William Shakespeare (1767). “The Works of Shakespeare: Much ado about nothing. All's well that ends well. The life and death of King John. The life and death of King Richard II”, p.274

Where hateful Death put on his ugliest mask.

William Shakespeare
Death, Hateful, Mask
William Shakespeare (1733). “The Second Part of Henry IV. Containing His Death and the Coronation of King Henry V.”, p.8

Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

William Shakespeare
Death, Fame, Conquest
William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1872). “Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations: Exhibiting the Most Forcible Passages, Illustrative of the Various Passions, Affections and Emotions of the Human Mind”, p.126

To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.

William Shakespeare
Death, Sleep, Heart
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

To take arms against a sea of troubles.

William Shakespeare
Death, Sea, Speech
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?

William Shakespeare
Life, Death, Country
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream—For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause, there's the respect, That makes calamity of so long life

William Shakespeare
Death, Dream, Sleep
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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