Best Romeo and Juliet Quotes to Reveal The Complexity and Beauty of Love

Amid drama and sadness, the story contains many quotes.

Liputan6.com, Jakarta Romeo and Juliet is an iconic story of a pair of star-crossed lovers. William Shakespeare wrote this story.

This tragic love story continues to resonate with readers around the world. Amid drama and sadness, the story contains many quotes.

This article will explore some of the best Romeo and Juliet quotes. These quotes contain the characters' emotions, passion, and sacrifice with themes of love and tragedy.

Look at these quotes and let them cheer you to a world where love knows no boundaries.

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Romeo and Juliet Quotes About Love

- "Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, but love from love, toward school with heavy looks." -Romeo

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

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

- "Call me but love, and Iâll be newly baptized." - Romeo

- "If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark." - Mercutio

- "But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun." - Romeo

- "One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun neâer saw her match since first the world begun." - Romeo

- "See how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O, that I were a glove upon that hand, that I might touch that cheek!" - Romeo

- "O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright." - Romeo

- "With love's light wings did I o'erperch these walls, for stony limits cannot hold love out, And what love can do, that dares love attempt." - Romeo

- "O, speak again, bright angel! For thou art as glorious to this night, being o'er my head, as is a winged messenger of heaven." - Romeo

- "I am no pilot. Yet, wert thou as far as that vast shore washed with the farthest sea, I would adventure for such merchandise." - Romeo

"This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, may prove a beauteous flower when we next meet." - Juliet

- "Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; being vexed, a sea nourished with loversâ tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall, and a preserving sweet." - Romeo

- "You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings, and soar with them above a common bound." - Mercutio

- "Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again." - Romeo

"O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable." -Juliet

- "My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite." - Juliet

- "My only love sprung from my only hate, too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me that I must love my enemy." - Juliet

- "Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight, for I ne'er saw true beauty till this night." - Romeo

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Romeo and Juliet Quotes About Death

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

- "Ready to go, but never to return." - Capulet - "O happy dagger, this is my sheath; there rust, and let me die." - Juliet

- "Can vengeance be pursued further than death?" - Paris

- "Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, hath had no power yet upon thy beauty." - Romeo

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

- "These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder." - Friar Lawrence - "Give me my Romeo, and, when he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun." - Juliet

- "Thus with a kiss I die." - Romeo

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Romeo and Juliet Quotes About Fate and Destiny

- "For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo." - The Prince of Verona

- "The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law." - Romeo

- "Parting is such sweet sorrow." - Juliet"Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, having some business, do entreat her eyes to twinkle in their spheres till they return." -Romeo

- "What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word. As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee." - Tybalt

- "Women may fall when thereâs no strength in men." - Friar Lawrence

- "Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast." - Friar Lawrence

- "What must be shall be." - Juliet - "'Tis but thy name that is my enemy ... O, be some other name! What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." - Juliet

- "He that is strucken blind cannot forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost." - Romeo