WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S THOUGHTS ON LIFE

 

                WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S THOUGHTS ON LIFE

          William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright. He was born at Stratford-upon-Avon on 23 April 1564 and died there on the same date (23 April) in 1616.  

            He wrote 39 plays comprising Tragedies, Comedies, Histories, and Romances, 154 sonnets, and several narrative poems such as Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece.

            His unparallel greatness as a poet playwright and otherwise is based upon profound psychological depth and enduring impact on the English language.

             Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Othello, and  Romeo and Juliet are his most famous tragic plays.

            Given below are his famous thoughts on Life.

*The web of our life is a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.

**There is nothing in this world can make me joy:

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale

 Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man;

And bitter shame hath spoil’d  the sweet world’s taste,

That it yields nought but shame and bitterness.

 

***Out, out, brief candle !

Life ‘s but a walking shadow, a poor player

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,

And then is heard no more; it is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.

 

****Life is a shuttle.

 

*****We are such stuff

As dreams are made on, and our little life

Is rounded with a sleep.

 

******I see a man’s life is a tedious one.

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PUNCHLINE: In this world our life is that of a tourist.

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G.R.Kanwal

21 July 2026