Shakespeare Quotes About Grief and Loss
15 quotes across 6 plays.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, / Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words.
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
Yet thou dost look Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling Extremity out of act.
Born in a tempest, when my mother died, This world to me is like a lasting storm, Whirring me from my friends.
It hath been sung at festivals, On ember-eves and holy-ales; And lords and ladies in their lives Have read it for restoratives.
I am the sea; hark, how her sighs do blow! She is the weeping welkin, I the earth:
When will this fearful slumber have an end?
Tigers must prey, and Rome affords no prey But me and mine: how happy art thou, then, From these devourers to be banished!
But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud,
For the rain it raineth every day.
A sad tale's best for winter: I have one Of sprites and goblins.
When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh! the doxy over the dale,
The oracle is fulfilled: the king's daughter is found.