An age is the reversal of an age: When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone, We lived like men that watch a painted stage. What matter for the scene, the scene once gone: It had not touched our lives.
You realize Shakespeare wasn't stuck for an idea when he said, 'All the world's a stage.'
Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.
All the world's a stage we're going through.
The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.
As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
The world is a stage, the stage is a world of entertainment.
