William Shakespeare on Life
Browse 7 quotations attributed to William Shakespeare, catalogued under life, with dates where available.
This page displays 7 quotations attributed to William Shakespeare and filed under "life" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to William Shakespeare, entry #238686: "The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life."
Attributed to William Shakespeare, entry #184154: "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em."
7 Quotes by William Shakespeare on Life
"The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life."
"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em."
"Life ... is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing."
"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world."
"Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
"A man can die but once."
"Simple: To be alive or not to be alive, that is what I'm wondering. Whether it is braver to live through all the bad luck of life, or to use weapons against all the troubles, and end them. Dying is like sleeping, it's nothing more than that. And if, by sleeping, we can stop the heartache and the thousand pains that living bodies have to experience, that is something to wish for very hard."