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Thus with a kiss, I die...

25 writing prompts compiled from Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare:

[Please feel free to use! I would love for you to tag me if you post any writing pulled from or inspired by this list so I can read all of your amazing work! <3]

Image: Gustav Klimt, The Death of Romeo and Juliet (detail), 1886–7.

"These violent delights have violent ends..."

"Don't waste your love on somebody who doesn't value it."

"Parting is such sweet sorrow..."

"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs..."

"I am fortune's fool..."

"Under love's heavy burden do I sink."

"You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them..."

"...dreamers often lie."

"It's easy for someone to joke about scars if they've never been cut."

"Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorns."

"I must be gone and live, or stay and die."

"Give me my sin again."

"Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied..."

"...where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury."

"I have a soul of lead, so stakes me to the ground I cannot move."

"I love someone. She doesn't love me."

"Some grief shows much of love, but much of grief shows still some want of wit."

"There's no trust, no faith, no honesty in men..."

"What must be shall be."

"If love be rough with you, be rough with love."

"In truth...I am too fond."

"I have no more care to stay than will to go."

"Well, we were born to die."

"Tis not so sweet now as it was before."

"I long to die."

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Something wicked this way comes...

20 moody writing prompts compiled from William Shakespeare's Macbeth: [I would love for you to tag me if you post any writing pulled from or inspired by this list, so I can read all of your amazing work! <3]

Image: Karl Bryullov, The Last Day of Pompeii (detail), 1830–3.

"Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires."

"Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o'er wrought heart and bids it break."

"What's done cannot be undone."

"Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it."

"I have no words; My voice is in my sword."

"Confusion now hath made his masterpiece."

"Better to be with the dead, whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, than on the torture of the mind to lie in restless ecstasy."

"The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love."

"Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell."

"The night is long that never finds the day."

"Your cause of sorrow must not be measured by his worth, for then it hath no end."

"There is nothing serious in morality."

"Tis safer to be that which we destroy than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy."

"Sometimes when we are labelled, when we are branded, our brand becomes our calling."

"...who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?"

"I have supped full with horrors."

"...oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the Instruments of Darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray us in deepest consequence."

"No, not even fit to live..."

"...I remember now I am in this earthly world, where to do harm is often laudable, to do good sometime accounted dangerous folly."

"Who could refrain, that had a heart to love, and in that heart courage to make love known?"

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To be, or not to be...

20 moody writing prompts compiled from Hamlet, by William Shakespeare:

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Image: Sir John Everett Millais, Ophelia (detail), 1851–2.

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

"If we are true to ourselves, we cannot be false to anyone."

"...in my heart there was a kind of fighting that would not let me sleep."

"A little more than kin, a little less than kind."

"Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow, great, great love grows there."

"Remember me."

"...all that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity."

"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

"How is it that the clouds still hang on you?"

"He is dead and gone..."

"The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream."

"We know what we are, but not what we may be."

"In all my life, only that dream is real."

"...that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she's dead."

"Lay her in the earth, and from her....flesh, may violets spring."

"...conscience does make cowards of us all..."

"God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another."

"Madness in great ones must not unwatched go."

"I must be cruel only to be kind..."

"I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious..."