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| Noblest of men, woo’t die? Hast thou no care of me? Shall I abide in this dull world, which in thy absence is no better than a sty? | |
| That we shall die, we know; 'tis but the time and drawing days out, that men stand upon. | |
| Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, might stop a hole to keep the wind away. | |
| The wariest and most loathed worldly life that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature, is a paradise to what we fear of death. | |
| Out alas. She’s cold, her blood is settled and her joints are stiff...Death lies on her like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the field. | |
| As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods, they kill us for their sport. | |
| Last scene of all, that ends this strange eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. | |
| After life’s fitful fever he sleeps well; treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further! | |
| Cry woe, destruction, ruin and decay. The worst is death, and Death will have his day. | |
| Lord, Lord, methought, what pain it was to drown, what dreadful noise of waters in mine ears, what ugly sights of death within mine eyes! | |
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| 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. | |
| But thoughts, the slaves of life, and life, time’s fool, and time, that takes survey of all the world, must have a stop. | |
| I am dying, Egypt, dying. Only I here importune death awhile until of many thousand kisses the poor last I lay upon thy lips. | |
| Come, be a man! Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies. | |
| Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones!...She’s gone for ever. I know when one is dead and when one lives--she's dead as earth. | |
| Out, sword, and wound the pap of Pyramus; ay, that left pap, where heart doth hop. Thus die I, thus, thus, thus. | |
| Reason thus with life: if I do lose thee, I do lose a thing that none but fools would keep. | |
| I’ll go see if the bear be gone from the gentleman, and how much he hath eaten…if there be any of him left, I’ll bury it. | |
| For in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil must give us pause: there’s the respect that makes calamity of so long life. | |
| Men must endure their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all. | |
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