The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
William Shakespeare
Life
The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
William Shakespeare
Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.