Monday, November 25, 2019

List of Death Quotations From Shakespeare

List of Death Quotations From Shakespeare Shakespeares tragedies have some deeply moving death-quotes. His quotations on death bring tears rolling down the cheeks. The sadness in the quotes moves you so much that you feel as though you have experienced a great loss. Here is a page of some of Shakespeares most moving death quotes. A Midsummer Nights Dream, Act V, Sc. IThis passion, and the death of a dear  friend, would go near to make a man look sad.Hamlet, Act V, Sc. IIThis fell sergeant, death,Is strict in his arrest.Hamlet, Act II, Sc. IIThey are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time: after your death, you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live. Hamlet,  Act III, Sc. I For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause. Julius Caesar, Act II, Sc. IICowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once.Julius Caesar,​ Act II, Sc. IIWhen beggars die, there are no comets seen;The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.King Henry IV. Part II, Act I, Sc. III were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.Macbeth, Act V, Sc. VTo-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,To the last syllable of recorded time;And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!Lifes but a walking shadow.Macbeth, Act V, Sc. VIThose clamorous harbingers of blood and death.Othello, Act II, Sc. IIf after every tempest come such calms,May the winds blow till they have wakend death!The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Sc. II am a tainted wether of the flock,Meetest for death: the weakest kind of fruitDrops earliest to the ground. Twelfth Night, Act III, Sc. IVOut of the jaws of death. Measure for Measure,   Act III, Sc. 1  If I must dieI will encounter darkness as a bride,And hug it in mine arms. Richard II, Act III, Sc. IIWoe, destruction, ruin, and decay;The worst is death, and death will have his day. Romeo and Juliet,  Act V, Sc. IIIEyes, look your last!Arms, take your last embrace! and lips, O youThe doors of breath, seal with a righteous kissA dateless bargain to engrossing death. Cymbeline,   Act IV, Sc. 2Golden lads and girls all must,As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. Henry VI, Part III, Act V, Sc. 2My sick heart showsThat I must yield my body to the earth,And, by my fall, the conquest to my foe.Thus yields the cedar to the axes edge,Whose arms gave shelter to the princely eagle;Under whose shade the ramping lion slept:Whose top-branch overpeerd Joves spreading tree,And kept low shrubs from winters powerful wind.

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