William Shakespeare Quotes About Life

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  • There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.

    'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. 10
  • Let's go hand in hand, not one before another.

    BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.171, BookCaps Study Guides
  • Care is no cure, but rather corrosive, For things that are not to be remedied.

    William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.19
  • Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.

    'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 72
  • The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

    1599 Antony. Julius Caesar, act 3, sc.2, l.74-86.
  • If fortune torments me, hope contents me.

    William Shakespeare (2000). “The Histories and Poems of Shakespeare: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.1785, Modern Library
  • Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

    'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 134
  • It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.

    'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 3, l. [307]
  • There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.

    'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 2, l. 20
  • Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

    William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.226
  • Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won

    William Shakespeare (2000). “The Tragedies of Shakespeare: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.1043, Modern Library
  • Life's uncertain voyage.

    'Timon Of Athens' act 5, sc. 1, l. [203]
  • This day I breathed first: time is come round, And where I did begin there shall I end; My life is run his compass.

    'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 5, sc. 3, l. 23
  • I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. 65
  • Ten masts make not the altitude Which thou hast perpendicularly fell. Thy life's a miracle.

    William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.797
  • Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you

    'As You Like It' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. [301]
  • Make not your thoughts your prisons.

    William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentick Copies, and Revised; with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added, an Essay on the Chronological Order of His Plays; an Essay Relative to Shakspeare and Jonson; a Dissertation on the Three Parts of King Henry VI; an Historical Account of the English Stage; and Notes; by Edmond Malone”, p.591
  • Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep.

    'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 2
  • So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend, or be rid on't.

    William Shakespeare (1806). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.130
  • Be not afraid of greatness.

    'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 5, l. [158]
  • One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

    'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 171
  • Be still prepared for death: and death or life shall thereby be the sweeter.

  • And a man's life's no more than to say "One."

    William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.423, Classic Books Company
  • Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

    1601 Olivia.Twelfth Night, act 3, sc.1, l.154.
  • O excellent! I love long life better than figs.

    'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 1, sc. 2, l. [34]
  • The course of true love never did run smooth.

    'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 132
  • You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live.

    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [375]
  • Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'd a blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality: All is but toys; renown, and grace is dead; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.

    'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [98]
  • The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

    'All's Well that Ends Well' (1603-4) act 4, sc. 3, l. [83]
  • Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep.

    William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.854, BookCaps Study Guides
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