Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.

The Tempest

We both stared into the abyss, but when it looked back at us, you blinked.

Batman (Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths)

I'm a man of thirty—of twenty again. The rain on my chest is a baptism. I'm born again.

Batman (Dark Knight Returns)

Your feast is nearly over. From this moment on, none of you are safe.

Batman (Batman: Year One)

I am a feather for each wind that blows.

Shakespeare (Winter's Tale)

I will break and twist things within you. You can't conceive of the pain I can cause.

Batman (Batman #423)

...and darkness be the burier of the dead.

Shakespeare (2Henry IV)

You'll hunt me. You'll condemn me, set the dogs on me.

Batman (The Dark Knight - film)

Sometimes it's only madness that makes us what we are.

Batman (Arkham Asylum)

Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand. Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.

Shakespeare (Titus Andronicus)

Grief forgives what can never be forgiven.

Batman (All Star Batman and Robin)

Welcome destruction, blood, and massacre. I see, as in a map, the end of all.

Shakespeare (Richard III)

And as the sun, that had been too afraid to show its face in this city, started to turn the black into grey, I smiled.

Batman (Batman #625)

The weight of this sad time we must obey.

Shakespeare (King Lear)

They have tied me to a stake—I cannot fly. But, bear-like, I must fight the course.

Shakespeare (Macbeth)

You cannot stop me, not with wine or vows or the weight of age. You cannot stop me, but still you try.

Batman (Dark Knight Returns)

That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow.

Shakespeare (Richard II)

Smoldering, I burn you—burning you, I flare, hot and bright and fierce and beautiful.

Batman (Dark Knight Returns)

I will grind your bones to dust. And with your blood and it I’ll make a paste.

Shakespeare (Titus Andronicus)

As a man, I'm flesh and blood. I can be ignored, I can be destroyed.

Batman (Batman Begins - film)

As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods—they kill us for their sport.

Shakespeare (King Lear)

Did I finally reach the limits of reason? And find the Devil waiting?

Batman (Batman RIP)

Then all you've waited for is a puppet. A soulless little doll.

Batman (Batman: The Animated Series)

I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in my arms.

Shakespeare (Measure for Measure)

I can live no longer by thinking.

Shakespeare (As You Like It)

I will not become an executioner.

Batman (Batman Begins - film)

He is come to open the purple testament of bleeding war.

Shakespeare (Richard II)

...how many hours bring about the day, how many days will finish up the year, how many years a mortal man may live.

Shakespeare (3Henry VI)

We die every day...a thousand times an hour.

Batman (JLA vol. 1 72)

Weep I cannot. But my heart bleeds.

Shakespeare (Winter's Tale)