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

“Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.”

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

“Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.”

“Be great in act, as you have been in thought.”

“Make death proud to take us.”

“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.”

“Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and are forever reborn. And with them, all is reborn, the flower of the apple tree, the light of the stars. In life is death. In death is rebirth. What then is life without death? Life unchanging, everlasting, eternal?-What is it but death-death without rebirth?”

“We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long”

“Summer came.”

“Was there ever a war where only one side bled?”

“But one wants the idea of Death, you know, as something large and unknowable, something that allows a person to stretch himself out. Especially one wants it if one is tired. Or perhaps what one wants is simply a release from sensation, from all consciousness for ever....”

“Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.”