William Shakespeare Quotes About Chaos

• O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Night, Nurse

  William Shakespeare (2006). “The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint”, p.188, Cambridge University Press

• Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Unrequited Love, Sleep

  William Shakespeare (2008). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.40, Barron's Educational Series

• Hopeless and helpless doth Egeon wend, But to procrastinate his liveless end.

  William Shakespeare

  Chaos, Hopeless, Ends

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Nicholas Rowe (1744). “The Works of Shakespear”, p.387

• Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Soul, Chaos

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 90

• Nay, had I pow'r, I should
  Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,
  Uproar the universal peace, confound
  All unity on earth.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Unity, Earth

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Macbeth”, p.158, Penguin

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