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William Shakespeare Quotes about Loss

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Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear

Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear

William Shakespeare
Memories, Memorable, Loss
'All's Well that Ends Well' (1603-4) act 5, sc. 3, l. 19

If we are mark'd to die, we are enow To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour. God's will! I pray thee; wish not one man more.

William Shakespeare
Country, Loss, Men
William Shakespeare (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.531

Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with other incident throes That nature's fragile vessel doth sustain In life's uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them.

William Shakespeare
Kindness, Grief, Loss
'Timon Of Athens' act 5, sc. 1, l. [203]

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.

William Shakespeare
Friendship, Loss, Thinking
Sonnet 30

What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief.

William Shakespeare
Positive, Grief, Loss
'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 3, sc. 2, l. [223]

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

William Shakespeare
Wise, Loss, Men

Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.

William Shakespeare
Loss, May, Hearing
Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.597, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.

William Shakespeare
Ambition, Loss, Choices
William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.741

And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare
Loss, Mistress, Sound
1609 Sonnets, sonnet 130.

Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Loss, Play
William Shakespeare (2009). “Love's Labour's Lost”, p.84, Cambridge University Press

He hath disgrac'd me and hind'red me half a million; laugh'd at my losses, mock'd at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated my enemies. And what's his reason? I am a Jew.

William Shakespeare
Loss, Laughing, Enemy
William Shakespeare (2016). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: All 214 Plays, Sonnets, Poems & Apocryphal Plays (Including the Biography of the Author): Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, The Tempest, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, The Comedy of Errorsäó_”, p.439, e-artnow

It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity, by being once lost, may be ten times found: by being ever kept, it is ever lost. ’Tis too cold a companion: away with ’t!

William Shakespeare
Loss, May, Firsts
William Shakespeare (2011). “A Choice of Shakespeare's Verse”, p.21, Faber & Faber

They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

William Shakespeare
Funny Inspirational, Loss, Venice
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 2, l. [5]

Be merry; you have cause, so have we all, of joy; for our escape is much beyond our loss . . . . then wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort.

William Shakespeare
Loss, Joy, Sorrow
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1778). “Prefaces. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor.- v.2. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost.- v.3. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming the shrew.- v.4. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. Winter's tale. Macbeth.- v.5 King John. King Richrd II. King Henry IV, parts I-II.- v.6. King Henry V. King Henry VI, parts I-III.- v.7 King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Coriolanus.- v.8. Julius Cæ”

I can give the loser leave to chide.

William Shakespeare
Loss, Giving, Speech
William Shakespeare (2003). “Henry VI, Part Two”, p.188, Oxford University Press, USA

When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare
Ocean, Loss, Winning
William Shakespeare (1973). “Shakespeare’s Sonnets: The Problems Solved”, p.130, Springer

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