![]() So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune,.The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees I had liv'd a blessed time for, from this instant,Īll is but toys renown, and grace is dead Had I but died an hour before this chance,.Macbeth (1605), Act I, scene 7, line 4.Might be the be-all and the end-all here,īut here, upon this bank and shoal of time, Julius Cæsar (1599), Act I, scene 3, line 93.Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,Ĭan be retentive to the strength of spirit īut life, being weary of these worldly bars, Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass,.When we are born, we cry, that we are come.King Lear (1608), Act IV, scene 6, line 55.King John (1598), Act III, scene 4, line 108.Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale,.Julius Cæsar (1599), Act V, scene 3, line 23.This day I breathed first: time is come round,.Julius Cæsar (1599), Act I, scene 2, line 93.Think of this life but, for my single self, Cardinal Wolsey is speaking about his friendship with Henry VIII. More pangs and fears than wars or women have Īnd when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to, Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours! Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye! Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me. My high-blown prideĪt length broke under me, and now has left me, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,īut far beyond my depth. His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root,Īnd then he falls, as I do. #Shakespeare quotes about life fullThe third day comes a frost, a killing frost,Īnd, when he thinks, good easy man, full surely The tender leaves of hopes to-morrow blossoms,Īnd bears his blushing honours thick upon him This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth So farewell to the little good you bear me.įarewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!.Here must I stay, and here my life must end. The sands are number'd that make up my life.Let life be short: else shame will be too long.To spend that shortness basely were too long, O gentlemen, the time of life is short!.And a man's life's no more than to say "One.".With this regard, their currents turn awry, Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought Īnd enterprises of great pith and moment, Thus conscience does make cowards of us all Than fly to others that we know naught of? The undiscover'd country, from whose bournĪnd makes us rather bear those ills we have With a bare bodkin? who would these fardels bear,īut that the dread of something after death,. That patient merit of the unworthy takes, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,įor who would bear the whips and scorns of time, To sleep, perchance to dream:-ay, there's the rub įor in that sleep of death what dreams may come, That flesh is heir to,-'tis a consummationĭevoutly to be wish'd. The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,Īnd by opposing end them?-To die, to sleep,. The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer To be, or not to be,-that is the question:.The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I, scene 4. Last phrase in The Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, scene 1 Othello, Act III, scene 1. And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe.Īnd then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot.Sermons in stones, and good in everything. And this our life, exempt from public haunt,įinds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,.Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act I, scene 2, line 32.O excellent! I love long life better than figs.All's Well That Ends Well (1600s), Act IV, scene 3, line 80.web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.And yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me no, nor Woman neither What a piece of work is man, How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, In form and moving how express and admirable, In action how like an Angel, In apprehension how like a god, The beauty of the world, The paragon of animals. ![]()
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