William Shakespeare Quotes about Death - Page 3

The gloomy shade of death.

Death, Shade, Gloomy

William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes”, p.169

What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!

William Shakespeare

Death, Eye, Sight

William Shakespeare (1864). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The first, second, and third parts of King Henry VI. The first part of the contention, &c. The true tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the good King Henry the Sixt. King Richard III”, p.507

O wretched state! o bosom black as death!

William Shakespeare

Death, Black, States

William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello”, p.327

On pain of death, no person be so bold.

William Shakespeare

Death, Pain, Persons

William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.341

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

William Shakespeare

Death, Men, Dying

'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. [253].

The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.

William Shakespeare

Death, Dying, Age

'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 114

Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.

William Shakespeare

Death, Gentleman, Dying

'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [32]

Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.

William Shakespeare

Life, Death, Men

'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 2, l. 9

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 Shakespeare

Death, Prayer, Sleep

'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 11

Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

Death, Suicide, Suicidal

1606 Cleopatra. Antony and Cleopatra, act 4, sc.16, l.82-4.

For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.

William Shakespeare

Death, Night, Bereavement

Sonnet 30

This thought is as a death.

William Shakespeare

Death

William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.928

For now they kill me with a living death.

William Shakespeare

Death, Kill Me

William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.27

Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death.

William Shakespeare

Death, Womb, Romeo And Juliet Play

William Shakespeare (2008). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.268, Barron's Educational Series

Why, thou owest god a death.

William Shakespeare

Death

'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 5, sc. 1, l. [125].

Speak me fair in death.

William Shakespeare

Death, Speak, Fairs

William Shakespeare, Henry L. Hinton (1868). “Shakespeare's Comedy of the Merchant of Venice”, p.73

Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death.

William Shakespeare

Death, Dream, Deeds

William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.234

Thou ominous and fearful owl of death.

William Shakespeare

Death, Owl, Ominous

William Shakespeare, Michael Taylor (2004). “Henry VI, Part One”, p.200, Oxford University Press, USA

Ay, but to die, and go we know not where.

William Shakespeare

Death, Dying Love, Measure For Measure

'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 114

When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover.

William Shakespeare

Death, Dust, Bones

William Shakespeare, D. BARNSTORFF, T. J. GRAHAM (Translator.) (1862). “A Key to Shakespeare's Sonnets by D. Barnstorff. Translated from the German by T. J. Graham. [With the text.]”, p.62

O Death, made proud with pure and princely beauty!

William Shakespeare

Death, Proud, Made

William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.124, BookCaps Study Guides