“Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.”

— William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 4, Scene 3

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.”

“Oh, well has it been said, that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak!”

“Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

“After great pain, a formal feeling comes.”

“'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”

“I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.”

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