13 Quotes About King-lear

The sun goes down. The trees bend,they straighten up. They bend. At eight the youngest daughter comes.She holds his hand.She says, Did they feed you?He says no.He says, Get me out of here.He wants so much to say please,but won’t. After a pause, she says—he hears her say—I love you like salt.

…every King must have a fool or risk becoming the fool himself.

I gave you all!" screeched Lear, waving a palsied claw at Regan."And you took your bloody time giving it, too, you senile old fuck," said Regan.

Virgina Woolf versus Edward Lear.""Christ Alive," said Billy. "Are those my only choices?""I went for Lear," said Leon. "Partly out of fidelity to the letter L. Partly because given the choice between nonsense and boojy wittering you blatantly have to choose nonsense.

Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound...{His second motto, from King Lear by Shakespeare}

The leafless trees, with their black branches stretched hysterically in every direction, looked to him like illustrations of a central nervous system racked by disease: studies of human suffering anatomized against the winter sky.

To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one called Shakespeare mad because he wrote ‘King Lear.

Nathan "N.R." Gaddis did not say ::2109 fellow Goodreaders [can’t be wrong] gave [King Lear] 1 star. Many call it boring. Some even say it is predictable and has no moral lesson. That these people have the right to vote and to procreate is frightening to me.

The king stood in a pool of blue light, unmoored.