William Shakespeare Quotes About Tragedy

• Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Death, Running

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

• O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealousy, Envy, Tragedy

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 165

• 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

• For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

  William Shakespeare

  Romance, Tragedy, Romeo And Juliet Love

  1595 Prince. Romeo andJuliet, act 5, sc.3, l.308-9.

• Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.

  William Shakespeare

  Cheer, Night, Long

  1606 Malcolm. Macbeth, act 4, sc.3, l.242.

• Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Believe, Musical

• Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Leaving, Tragedy

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 4, l. 7

• I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.

  William Shakespeare

  Tragedy, Departure, Earth

• Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

  William Shakespeare

  Tragedy, Cassius, Ears

  Julius Caesar act 3, sc. 2, l. 74 (1599)

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