And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!William Shakespeare
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.William Shakespeare
This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is 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.William Shakespeare
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.William Shakespeare
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.Winston Churchill