If there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold! 'The jaws of darkness do devour it up; So quick bright things come to confusion. William Shakespeare
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This quote is about how quickly our world changes. If there were a sympathy in choice,War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it,Making it momentary as a sound,Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,Brief as the lightning in the collied nightThat, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up;So quick bright things come to confusion.The quote is talking about how quick things change and how quickly they can go from good to bad even when we don’t expect them to change. As you can see in the quote “War” was not something that was expected but it happened and then that is when everything changed.

Source: A Midsummer Nights Dream

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