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Quick answer: Yes, there are several quotes from "Romeo and Juliet" illustrating their desire to not live without each other. Romeo expresses this in Act 2, Scene 2, willing to give up...
Romeo and Juliet, Act 5, Scene 3. Juliet: O happy dagger! This is thy sheath! There rust and let me die. Most Shakespeare readers agree that Juliet’s line as she stabs herself involves two puns. One on ‘sheath’ – the Latin word for a vagina – and again using the Elizabethan slang for orgasm, ‘die’.
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One of the play’s major themes is the inseparability of good and evil, love and hate, poison and cure. Juliet’s death is tragic, but she also celebrates it as a way of escaping a life without her beloved. Important quotes by Juliet in Romeo and Juliet.
In Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare gave the world such memorable quotes as “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet“, “parting is such sweet sorrow”, “a plague on both your houses” and dozens more. Below is our pick of the very best quotes from Romeo and Juliet, spoken by a variety of primary and secondary characters in the play.
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops. —Romeo tells Juliet that the night is gone, and day has come. Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps. —Afraid that Romeo will be in danger from staying with her too long, Juliet says that it is the lark (harbinger of the day) that is singing.
Let’s talk; it is not day. (III.v.) This line is the first moment in the play when it seems Romeo and Juliet might have a chance to talk about something besides their love for one another. However, the chance never comes, because Romeo has to escape from Verona.
Romeo and Juliet Commentary provides a comprehensive description of each act with explanations and translations for all major quotes
