by James DeVita
95 Here never shines the sun; here nothing breeds. Titus Andronicus, Tamora, Act 2, scene 3.
95 Like to a slaughtered lamb, in this detested, dark, blood-drinking pit. Titus Andronicus, Martius, Act 2, scene 3.
95 I must talk of acts of black night, abominable deeds. Titus Andronicus, Aaron, Act 5, scene 1.
95 A crimson river of warm blood … Titus Andronicus, Marcus, Act 2, scene 4.
96 Who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Act 5, scene 1.
98 turning your books to graves, your ink to blood. Henry IV, part 2, Westmoreland, Act 4, scene 1.
100 I am Revenge, sent from the infernal kingdom / To ease the gnawing vulture of my mind. Titus Andronicus, Tamora, Act 5, scene 2 (paraphrased).
101 If I digged up thy forefathers’ graves … I live in hell. Henry VI, part 3, Clifford, Act 1, scene 3 (paraphrased).
101 I will find them out, / And in their ears tell them my dreadful name … / Revenge. Titus Andronicus, Tamora, Act 5, scene 2.
105 Had I thy brethren here … I live in hell. Henry VI, part 3, Clifford, Act 1, scene 3.
106 Be thou revenged on men, and let me live! … why wilt thou slay me? Henry VI, part 3, Rutland and Clifford, Act 1, scene 3.
106 These wrongs, unspeakable, past patience, / Are more than any living man could bear. Titus Andronicus, Marcus, Act 5, scene 3.
106 Past cure I am; now reason is past care. Shakespeare Sonnet 147.
106 My thoughts and my discourse as madmen’s are. Shakespeare Sonnet 147. 106 O, full of scorpions is my mind. Macbeth, Macbeth, Act 3, scene 2.
107 Confusion now hath made his masterpiece. Macbeth, Macduff, Act 2, scene 3.
117 You are deceived, for what you see is but the smallest part of humanity. Henry VI, part 1, Talbot, Act 2, scene 3.
121 There is no darkness but ignorance; in which thou art more puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog. Twelfth Night, Feste, Act 4, scene 2.
123 plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. King Lear, Lear, Act 4, scene 6.
126 Thou art death’s fool; / For him thou labour’st by thy flight to shun, / And yet runn’st toward him still. Measure for Measure, Duke Vincentio, Act 3, scene 1.
127 Now o’er the one half-world nature seems dead, / And wicked dreams abuse the curtained sleep. Macbeth, Macbeth, Act 2, scene 1.
127 He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own bloody nails in his palms. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 44, “The Chart.”
127 Whole oceans away, from that young girl-wife. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 132, “The Symphony.”
127 There’s a great spirit gone. Thus did I desire it. / Would the hand could pluck her back that shoved her on. Antony and Cleopatra, Antony, Act 1, scene 2.
127 When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain’s exclusiveness. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 132, “The Symphony.”
128 Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. Shakespeare Sonnet 73.
129 A sort of vagabonds, rascals, and runaways, / A scum of base lackey peasants, / Whom their o’er-cloyed country vomits forth. Richard III, King Richard, Act 5, scene 3.
130 Whither should I fly? I have done no harm. Macbeth, Lady MacDuff, Act 4, scene 2.
137 When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions. Hamlet, Claudius, Act 4, scene 5.
140 Tell him Revenge is come to join with him, / And work confusion on his enemies. Titus Andronicus, Tamora, Act 5, scene 2.
142 I have done a thousand dreadful things / As willingly as one would kill a fly, / And nothing grieves me heartily indeed / But that I cannot do ten thousand more. Titus Andronicus, Aaron, Act 5, scene 1.
143 Alack, alack, my child’s dead, / My soul and not my child. Romeo and Juliet, Capulet, Act 4, scene 5 (paraphrased).
143 Dead art thou, alack my child is dead. Romeo and Juliet, Capulet, Act 4, scene 5.
143 The sweetest, dearest creature’s dead. The Winter’s Tale, Paulina, Act 3, scene 2.
143 Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff. / Life and these lips have long been separated. Romeo and Juliet, Capulet, Act 4, scene 5.
143 ’Tis here, but yet confused. Othello, Iago, Act 2, scene 1.
143 If ever you chance to have a child, / Look in her youth to have her so cut off. Henry VI, part 3, Margaret, Act 5, scene 5 (paraphrased).
148 For this was he ordained, for this was he set on this earth. Henry VI, part 3, Gloucester, Act 5, scene 6 (paraphrased).
149 Grief fills the room up of my absent child. King John, Constance, Act 3, scene 4.
154 I am a man more sinned against than sinning. King Lear, Lear, Act 3, scene 2.
154 This one hand yet is left to cut your throats. Titus Andronicus, Titus, Act 5, scene 2.
154 I would have thee live, for in my sense ’tis happiness to die. Othello, Othello, Act 5, scene 2.
154 My wits begin to turn. King Lear, Lear, Act 3, scene 2.
154 There’s not a hollow cave or lurking place … but I will find them out. Titus Andronicus, Tamora, Act 5, scene 2 (paraphrased).
157 a murdering peace. Hamlet, Claudius, Act 4, scene 5 (paraphrased).
157 She had been his all-the-world. Shakespeare Sonnet 112 (paraphrased).
158 And thus I clothe my naked villainy / And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. Richard II, King Richard, Act 1, scene 3.
162 That wild madness that’s only calm to comprehend itself. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 37, “Sunset.”
163 My wife, my wife. What wife? I have no wife. Othello, Othello, Act 5, scene 2.
165 If of life you keep a care, / Shake off slumber, and beware. The Tempest, Ariel, Act 2, scene 1.
166 melt into the air. Macbeth, Macbeth, Act 1, scene 3 (paraphrased).
170 Where is my judgment fled, that censures falsely when I see aright? Shakespeare Sonnet 73 (paraphrased).
178 and Lynette no life at all? King Lear, Lear, Act 5, scene 3 (paraphrased).
178 I have supped full with horrors. Macbeth, Macbeth, Act 5, scene 5.
179 And down I laid, to list this sad-tuned tale; / A plaintful story from a sistering vale. Shakespeare, “A Lover’s Complaint,” lines 2–4 (paraphrased).