Quotes from William Shakespeare

My life, my joy, my food, my ail the world!

There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.

Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life.

Ten masts make not the altitude Which thou hast perpendicularly fell. Thy life's a miracle.

I say, without characters, fame lives long.

Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible!

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!

If fortune torments me, hope contents me.

Care is no cure, but rather corrosive, For things that are not to be remedied.

Be still prepared for death: and death or life shall thereby be the sweeter.

Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep.

Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

There is no sure foundation set on blood, No certain life achieved by others' death.

Let life be short, else shame will be too long.

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

So are you to my thoughts as food to life, or as sweet seasoned showers are to the ground.

The heavens forbid But that our loves and comforts should increase Even as our days do grow!

The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.

Even through the hollow eyes of death I spy life peering.

To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life: let it come on.

World, world, O world! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee/ Life would not yield to age.

And a man's life's no more than to say "One."