William Shakespeare Quotes About Mourning

• To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

  William Shakespeare

  Broken Heart, Breakup, Grief

  1592 Richard. Henry VI PartThree, act 2, sc.1, l.85-6.

• Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Heart, Sadness

• Lords, I protest my soul is full of woe
  That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow.
  Come, mourn with me for what I do lament,
  And put sullen black incontinent.
  I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land
  To wash this blood off from my guilty hand.
  March sadly after. Grace my mournings here
  In weeping after this untimely bier.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Blood, Hands

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.336, BookCaps Study Guides

• Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain. And truly not the morning sun of heaven Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east, Nor that full star that ushers in the even, Doth half that glory to the sober west, As those two mourning eyes become thy face: O! let it then as well beseem thy heart To mourn for me since mourning doth thee grace, And suit thy pity like in every part. Then will I swear beauty herself is black, And all they foul that thy complexion lack

  William Shakespeare

  Morning, Stars, Pain

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.

  William Shakespeare

  Brother, Memories, Remembrance

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

• Hung be the heavens with black! Yield, day, to night!

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Yield, Mourning

  'Henry VI, Part 1' (1592) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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