“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.”
— William Shakespeare (The Taming of the Shrew)

“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.”
— William Shakespeare (Julius Caesar)

“These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triump die, like fire and powder
Which, as they kiss, consume”
— William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)

“All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”

— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

“When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.”
— William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)

“If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.”
— William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)

“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
— William Shakespeare (The Tempest)

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
— William Shakespeare (Julius Caesar)