“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”

— William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5

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.”

“A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.”

“Nothing gold can stay.”

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

“Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.”

“Light sorrows speak, but deeper ones are dumb.”

“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.”