William Shakespeare Quotes about Dying

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The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony.

The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony.

Peace, Men, Dying

William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.242, Cengage Learning EMEA

They say, the tongues of dying men Enforce attention, like deep harmony; Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain; For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

Pain, Men, Dying

William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.242, Cengage Learning EMEA

I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.

William Shakespeare

Death, Men, Dying

'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. [253].

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.

William Shakespeare

Death, Dying, Age

'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 114

Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.

William Shakespeare

Death, Gentleman, Dying

'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [32]

Oh, injurious love, that respites me a life, whose very comfort is still a dying horror

William Shakespeare

Love You, Dying, Comfort

William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.74