“No, no, I am but shadow of myself:
You are deceived, my substance is not here;”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Henry VI, Part 1
“She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Henry VI, Part 1
“Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men
When for so slight and frivolous a cause
Such factious emulations shall arise!”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Henry VI, Part 1
“But you, that are polluted with your lusts, Stain'd with the guiltless blood of innocents, Corrupt and tainted with a thousand vices, Because you want the grace that others have, You judge it straight a thing impossible To compass wonders but by help of devils.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Henry VI, Part 1
“No more can I be sever'd from your side, Than can yourself yourself in twain divide:”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Henry VI, Part 1
“My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; I know not where I am, nor what I do;”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Henry VI, Part 1
“May never glorious sun reflex his beams Upon the country where you make abode: But darkness and the gloomy shade of death Environ you, till mischief and despair Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves!”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Henry VI, Part 1
“When a world of men
Could not prevail with all their oratory,
Yet hath a woman's kindness overrul'd;”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Henry VI, Part 1
“Unbidden guests
Are often welcomest when they are gone.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Henry VI, Part 1
“This late dissension grown betwixt the peers
Burns under feigned ashes of forg'd love,
And will at last break out into a flame:
As festered members rot but by degree,
Till bones and flesh and sinews fall away,
So will this base and envious discord breed.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Henry VI, Part 1
“Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men,”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Henry VI, Part 1
“Wilt thou be daunted at a woman's sight? Aye, beauty's princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Henry VI, Part 1
“Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Henry VI, Part 1
William Shakespeare
Born place: Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, The United Kingdom
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“When you’re alone you can long so hard for something like an embrace that you mine it from the air. You find it in meanings that you might not otherwise grasp, for which it is helpful to arise early in the morning, when the mind is clear and the heart is gentle.”
― Mark Helprin, quote from A Soldier of the Great War
“Jealousy—at least as far as he understood it from his dream—was the most hopeless prison in the world. Jealousy was not a place he was forced into by someone else, but a jail in which the inmate entered voluntarily, locked the door, and threw away the key. And not another soul in the world knew he was locked inside. Of course if he wanted to escape he could do so. The prison, was after all, his own heart. But he couldn't make that decision. His heart was as hard as a stone wall. This was the very essence of jealousy.”
― Haruki Murakami, quote from Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith, history. Human life -- and herein lies its secret -- takes place in the immediate proximity of that border, even in direct contact with it; it is not miles away, but a fraction of an inch.”
― Milan Kundera, quote from The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“Sometimes the gods give you a break.”
― Richard Bachman, quote from Thinner
“You are an intriguing combination, half child, half seductress, half angel."
I laughed sort and bitterly. "That's what all men like to think about women. Little girls they have to take care of--when I know for a fact it is the male who is more boy than man.”
― V.C. Andrews, quote from Petals on the Wind
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