William Shakespeare Quotes about Mortality
Do not speak like a death's-head, do not bid me remember mine end.
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”
Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall die.
1597-8 Shallow. Henry IV PartTwo, act 3, sc.2, l.35-6.
'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [98]
Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead!
William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.423
Retire me to my Milan, where Every third thought shall be my grave.
William Shakespeare, Ernest Fleischer, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1830). “... The plays and poems of William Shakespeare: accurately printed from the text of the corrected copies, left by the late Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, and Edmond Malone ...”, p.18