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?"
