“And all my mother came into mine eyes and gave me up to tears.”

— William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 4, Scene 6

About William Shakespeare

1564 – 1616

English playwright and poet, author of 'Hamlet', 'Macbeth' and 'Romeo and Juliet'.

“To thine own self be true.”

“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”

“The busy have no time for tears.”

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”

“One often calms one's grief by recounting it.”

“I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.”

“Winter is come and gone, but grief returns with the revolving year.”

“Acceptance is the better part of grief.”