"The gloomy shade of death...." - Quote by William Shakespeare
The gloomy shade of death.
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“Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for you and dote upon the exchange.”
“If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage.”
“My heart suspects more than mine eye can see.”
More on Death
“Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets [of New Orleans] to it, to a cemetery, he observes to himself that if those people down there would live as neatly while they are alive as they do after they are dead, they would find many advantages in it; and besides, their quarter would be the wonder and admiration of the business world.”
“I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.”
“Why are the people starving?-Because their grain is being eaten up by the taxesThat's why they're starvingWhy are people rebellious?-Because those above them meddle in their livesThat's why they're rebelliousWhy do people regard death so lightly?-Because they are so involved with their own livingThat's why they regard death so lightlyIn the end,The treasure of life is missed by those who hold onand gained by those who let go”
More on Mortality
“Let the new faces play what tricks they willIn the old rooms; night can outbalance day,Our shadows rove the garden gravel still,The living seem more shadowy than they.”
“Dead men have no victory.”
“For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember these two points: first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle, and that it signifies not whether a man shall look upon the same things for a hundred years or two hundred, or for an infinity of time; second, that the longest lived and the shortest lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.”