Death Quote by William Shakespeare — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“As an unperfect actor on the stage,”

“Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.”

“thus with a kiss I die”

“Jesters do oft prove prophets.”

“Life... is a paradise to what we fear of death.”

“One pain is lessened by another’s anguish. ... Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.”

“After my mom died she ate my father up completely. She would have hated it. Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every action has lacked dimension because she is not there to measure against. And when I was young I didn't understand, but now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird. If I had to live on without you I know I could not do it. But I hope, I have this vision of you walking unencumbered, with your shining hair in the sun. I have not seen this with my eyes, but only with my imagination, that makes pictures, that always wanted to paint you, shining; but I hope that this vision will be true, anyway.”

“Do you wrestle with dreams?”

“He said that there was death and taxes, and taxes was worse, because at least death didn’t happen to you every year.”

“The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon 'Hell and Damnation'—upon an attempt to scare people into being decent and threatening them with the terrors of death and punishment.”

“Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.”