William Shakespeare - Death Quotes

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I am dying, Egypt, dying; only
I here importune death awhile, until
Of many thousand kisses the poor last
I lay upon thy lips.

William Shakespeare
How oft when men are at the point of death
Have they been merry! which their keepers call
A lightning before death.

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Methought I heard a voice cry, 'Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep,' the innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care,
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast.

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For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life's but breath, to trust it error.

William Shakespeare
This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad.

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O proud death!
What feast is toward in thine eternal cell?

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Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.

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I would to God my name were not so terrible to the enemy as it is: I were better to be eaten to death with rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

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But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd 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?

William Shakespeare