William Shakespeare Quotes About Grief

• 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

• To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

  William Shakespeare

  Broken Heart, Breakup, Grief

  1592 Richard. Henry VI PartThree, act 2, sc.1, l.85-6.

• Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Heart, Sadness

• My grief lies all within,
  And these external manners of lament
  Are merely shadows to the unseen grief
  That swells with silence in the tortured soul.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Grief, Silence

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.410, Cengage Learning EMEA

• Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with other incident throes That nature's fragile vessel doth sustain In life's uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them.

  William Shakespeare

  Kindness, Grief, Loss

  'Timon Of Athens' act 5, sc. 1, l. [203]

• Tears water our growth.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Grieving, Water

• Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Grieving, Masters

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 3, sc. 2, l. [28]

• 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

  Love, Sympathy, Death

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 17

• He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep; If thou wake, he cannot sleep: Thus of every grief in heart He with thee does bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Heart, Sleep

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.942

• Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . .

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Grief, Moon

  William Shakespeare, Thomas BOWDLER (F.R.S.) (1831). “The Family Shakspeare ... By T. Bowdler ... Sixth Edition”, p.824

• O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours with Time's deformed hand Have written strange defeatures in my face. But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice?

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Hands, Voice

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.160, BookCaps Study Guides

• Grief makes one hour ten.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Losing A Loved One, Grieving

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.77

• I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Sadness, Sorrow

  1596 Constance. KingJohn, act 2, sc.2, l.68-9.

• When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Memorable, Heart

• Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Grieving, Clouds

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 5, l. 198

• The violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Joy, Violence

  William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The Fourth Edition. Revised and Augmented (with a Glossarial Index) by the Editor of Dodsley's Collection of Old Plays”, p.192

• 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

• O madam, my old heart is cracked, it's cracked!

  William Shakespeare

  Heartbreak, Grief, Heart

  William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1992). “The Tragedy of King Lear”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

• Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Want, Juliet

  William Shakespeare (1829). “Dramatic Works: Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone”, p.780

• Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty look, repeats his words, Remembers me of his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Lying, Grief

  'King John' (1591-8) act 3, sc. 4, l. 93

• In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Sweet, Art

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 1, l. 3

• A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Sadness, Blow

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [370]

• What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief.

  William Shakespeare

  Positive, Grief, Loss

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 3, sc. 2, l. [223]

• Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Art, Spring

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 1, l. 3

• No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel: My griefs cry louder than advertisement.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Men, Office

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.120

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