Death Quotes

• "Why, he that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death."
  By: William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Casca at III, i)
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• "That we shall die, we know; 'tis but the time, And drawing days out, that men stand upon."
  By: William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Brutus at III, i)
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• "When beggars die there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes."
  By: William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Calphurnia at II, ii)
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• "Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once."
  By: William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Caesar at II, ii)
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• "Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come."
  By: William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Caesar at II, ii)
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• "O proud Death, What feast is toward in thine eternal cell That thou so many princes at a shot So bloodily hast struck?"
  By: William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Fortinbras at V, ii)
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• "We should profane the service of the dead To sing a requiem and such rest to her As to peace-parted souls."
  By: William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Doctor at V, i)
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• "Lay her i' th' earth, And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring!"
  By: William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Laertes at V, i)
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• "Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?"
  By: William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, i)
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• "To die, to sleep-- No more--and by a sleep to day we end The heartache, 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: ay, there's the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause."
  By: William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, i)
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• "Thus was I sleeping by a brother's hand Of life, of crown, of queen at once dispatched, Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, Unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled, No reck'ning made, but sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head."
  By: William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Ghost at I, v)
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• "Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust. Thou know'st 'tis common. All that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity."
  By: William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Gertrude, Queen of Denmark at I, ii)
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• "Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust."
  By: William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (Guiderius at IV, ii)
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• "To what base uses may we return! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till it find it, stopping a bunghole? As thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth to dust; the dust is earth: of earth we make loam. And why of that loam, whereto be was converted, might they not stop a beer barrel?"
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "Though death be poor, it ends a mortal woe."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "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."
  By: William Shakespeare
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