Tag: Tragedies

  • October 18

    October 18

    Misery


    To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
    Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
    To the last syllable of recorded time,
    And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
    The way to dusty death.

    —Macbeth,
    Act V, Scene v

  • October 15

    October 15

    Tarnish


    All gold and silver rather turn to dirt.

    –Cymbeline,
    Act III Scene vi

  • October 13

    October 13

    Go


    Thyself upon thyself!

    –Troilus and Cressida,
    Act II, Scene iii

  • October 7

    October 7

    Passive Aggressive


    Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle
    in my corrupted blood… But I’ll not chide thee.

    -King Lear,
    Act II, Scene ii

  • October 4

    October 4

    Wrath


    Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,
    Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.

    –Titus Andronicus,
    Act II, Scene ii

  • September 29

    September 29

    Downward Spiral


    Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.

    Macbeth,
    Act III, Scene ii

  • September 28

    September 28

    Unrequited


    ‘Tis the strumpet’s plague
    To beguile many and be beguiled by one:
    He, when he hears of her, cannot refrain
    From the excess of laughter.

    Othello,
    Act IV, Scene i