Life Quotes

“You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.”

“Come, Lady, die to live.”

“To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep No more; and by a sleep, to say we end The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die to sleep, To sleep, perchance to Dream; Aye, there's the rub.”

“Even through the hollow eyes of deathI spy life peering.”

“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”

“O, how full of briers is this working-day world!”

“But earthlier happy is the rose distill'dThan that which withering on the virgin thornGrows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.”

“I have thrust myself into this maze,Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.”

“What e'er thou art, act well thy part.”

“With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.”

“Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?”

“The object of Art is to give life a shape.”

“So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies.”

“As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.”

“Tired with all these for restful death I cry, As to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimmed in jollity, And purest faith unhappily forsworn.”

“Let life be short, else shame will be too long.”

“O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!”

“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our own virtues.”

“The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.”

“Be still prepared for death: and death or life shall thereby be the sweeter.”

“He knows what it's like to strut and fret his hour upon the stage and then be heard no more.”

“Hang there like fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!”

“Time be thine,And thy best graces spend it at thy will.”

“By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.”

“Seek happy nights to happy days.W”