William Shakespeare Quotes About Eternity

• I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

  William Shakespeare

  Motivational, Time, Memorable

  'Richard II' (1595) act 5, sc. 5, l. 49

• Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Nature

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 72

• Time ... thou ceaseless lackey to eternity.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Eternity, Lackeys

• Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy?

  William Shakespeare

  Vines, Mirth, Toys

  'The Rape Of Lucrece' (1594) l. 213

• Eternity was in our lips and eyes,
  Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor
  But was a race of heaven.

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Eye, Race

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 1, sc. 3, l. 35

• What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy? For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy? Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown, Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Sweet, Winning

  'The Rape Of Lucrece' (1594) l. 213

• But thy eternal summer shall not fade.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Eternity, Love Poems

  Sonnet 18

• Eternity was in our lips and eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Lips, Eternity

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 1, sc. 3, l. 35

• The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

  William Shakespeare

  Karma, Time, Revenge

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [388]

• Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Pace, You Like It

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1826). “Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew”, p.165

• My joy is death- Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish'd this world's eternity.

  William Shakespeare

  Names, Joy, Wish

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.60

• we are the lords of all eternity

  William Shakespeare

  Eternity, Lord

• Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,
  Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs
  And then grace us in the disgrace of death;
  When, spite of cormorant devouring Time,
  Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy
  That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge
  And make us heirs of all eternity.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Grace, Honor

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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