Quotes About Life

The weakest kind of fruitDrops earliest to the ground.

Macduff was from his mother's wombUntimely ripp'd.

So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune,That I would set my life on any chance,To mend it or be rid on 't.

How sour sweet music isWhen time is broke and no proportion kept!So is it in the music of men's lives.

The weariest and most loathed worldly lifeThat age, ache, penury, and imprisonmentCan lay on nature is a paradiseTo what we fear of death.

Duncan is in his grave;After life's fitful fever he sleeps well;Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison,Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothingCan touch him further.

If it were now to die,'Twere now to be most happy.

He wears the roseOf youth upon him.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

We see which way the stream of time doth runAnd are enforc'd from our most quiet sphereBy the rough torrent of occasion.

Fear no more the heat o' the sun,Nor the furious winter's rages;Thou thy worldly task hast done,Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages;Golden lads and girls all must,As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.

He hath a daily beauty in his life.

Had I but died an hour before this chanceI had liv'd a blessed time; for, from this instant,There's nothing serious in mortality,All is but toys; renown and grace is dead,The wine of life is drawn, and the mere leesIs left this vault to brag of.

I bear a charmed life.

Nothing in his lifeBecame him like the leaving it; he diedAs one that had been studied in his deathTo throw away the dearest thing he ow'd,As 'twere a careless trifle.

Death is a fearful thing.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me;For now hath time made me his numbering clock:My thoughts are minutes.

Live to be the show and gaze o' the time.

O God! that one might read the book of fate.

The very staff of my age, my very prop.

One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she's dead.

Shall I never see a bachelor of threescore again?