Death
"I hereby renounce sword and the shelter of the broad shield, the heavy war-board: hand-to-hand is how it will be, a life-and-death fight with the fiend. Whichever on death fells must deem it a just judgement by God."
Beowulf (Beowulf)
Well, Brutus, thou art noble. Yet I see thy honorable mettle may be wrought from that it is disposed. Therefore it is meet that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced?
Julius Caesar (Cassius)
"They had killed the enemy, courage quelled his life; that pair of kinsman, partners in nobility, had destroyed the foe. So every man should act, be at hand when needed; but now, for the king, this would be the last of his many labours and triumphs in the world."
Beowulf (Narrator)
"But the queen--too long has she suffered the pain of love, hour by hour nursing the wound in her lifeblood, consumed by the fire buried in her heart."
The Aeneid (Narrator)
"O god--all come true, all burst to light! O light--now let me look my last on you! I stand revealed at last--cursed in my birth, cursed in my marriage, cursed in the lives I cut down with these hands."
Oedipus Rex (Oedipus)
"Speak, hands, for me!"
Julius Caesar (Casca)
"I set sail for Italy -- all against my will."
The Aeneid (Aeneas)
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears"
"A miracle! Here's our own hands against our hearts."
Much Ado About Nothing (Benedick)
"I am Ungit."
Till We Have Faces (Orual)
But if you are threatening some disaster, Fortune, let me break off this brutal life now, now while anxieties waver and hopes for the future fade, while you, my beloved boy, my lone delight come lately, I still hold you in my embrace. Oh, let no graver news arrive and pierce my ears!"
The Aeneid (Evander)
"When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married."
Much Ado About Nothing (Benedick)
"Shall I cut and run? Shall the country look on (me) in full retreat? To die, tell me, is that the worst we face?"
The Aeneid (Turnus)
Broken and bowed, outcast from all sweetness, the enemy of mankind made for his death-den. But now his mother had sallied forth on a savage journey, grief-racked and ravenous, desperate for revenge.
Beowulf (Narrator)
"For man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion."
Pride breeds the tyrant, violent pride, gorging, crammed to bursting with all that is overripe and rich with ruin -- clawing up to the heights, headlong pride crashes down the abyss -- sheer doom!
Oedipus Rex (Chorus)
"Is he not approved in the height a villian that hath slandered, scorned, dishonored my kinswoman? O, that I were a man!...I would eat his heart in the marketplace."
Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice)
"You've been feeling tired, but I can do somthing about that. I've come to ask whether you'd care to join my Owlsa. We shall be glad to have you and you'll enjoy it. If you're ready, we might go along now.
Watership Down (El-ahrairah)
"Daughter, daughter, you are transported beyond all reason and nature. Do you know what it is? There's one part love in your heart, and five parts anger, and seven parts pride."
Till We Have Faces (The Fox)
"And kill them, you say, and help ourselves to their great burrow? We shall help ourselves to a roof of bones, hung with shining wires! Help ourselves to misery and death!"
Watership Down (Fiver)
"We turned and looked. The thing which had been half-alive for so long was dead; had died (if he understood it) seeing a girl ransacking his armoury.
Till We Have Faces (Orual)
"Do you know how the white blindness is carried? It is carried by the fleas in rabbit's ears."
"So come, dear father, climb up onto my shoulders. I will carry you on my back. This labor of love will never wear me down."
The Aeneid (Aeneas)
"What should a man fear? It's all chance, chance rules our lives. Not a man on earth can see a day ahead, groping through the dark. Better to live a random, best we can."
Oedipus Rex (Jocasta)
"O pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, that I am meek and gentle with these butchers. Thou art the ruins of the noblest man that ever lived in the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!"
Julius Caesar (Marc Antony)