Did Shakespeare write anything gloomier than...?

Question

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last sylable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle.
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

Answer 1

possibly this:

Sonnet 129

The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Is lust in action; and till action, lust
Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame,
Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust,
Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight,
Past reason hunted, and no sooner had
Past reason hated, as a swallow'd bait
On purpose laid to make the taker mad;
Mad in pursuit and in possession so;
Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme;
A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe;
Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream.
All this the world well knows; yet none knows well
To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.

Answer 2

I love that last bit especially, from Macbeth, where the death rate is relatively low. Not got the great lines, but I would put forward as a candidate, the play Titus Andronicus as being pretty gloomy. Here are some of the highlights of Titus Andronicus, in which nearly everyone dies in the most disgusting ways, usually after being tortured or raped. One family mealtime is rather spoiled by the fact that Dad has lost a hand while his daughter has not only been raped but lost both her hands and her tongue, and both are mourning the death by decapitation of two of his sons. At another meal, The emperor's wife is served a pie made from the meat of her two sons, which she eats, and having been told what is in the pie she is then stabbed. Whereupon the emperor stabs her killer, and his son stabs the emperor in rapid succession.Of the survivors, one becomes Emperor, and condemns the other to death by being buried living up to his chest in the ground and allowed to die slowly of starvation.

Just saw it Saturday night at the Globe, a thrilling night out, much to be recommended

Answer 3

HAMLET

Then is doomsday near: but your news is not true.
Let me question more in particular: what have you,
my good friends, deserved at the hands of fortune,
that she sends you to prison hither?

GUILDENSTERN

Prison, my lord!

HAMLET

Denmark's a prison.

ROSENCRANTZ

Then is the world one.

HAMLET

A goodly one; in which there are many confines,
wards and dungeons, Denmark being one o' the worst.

ROSENCRANTZ

We think not so, my lord.

HAMLET

Why, then, 'tis none to you; for there is nothing
either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me
it is a prison.

Answer 4

Not sure about gloomier but he certainly wrote plenty of stuff of equal gloom. Just read all his tragedies. Well, I'm sure everyone dies even in all the "comedies"

Answer 5

Yes talk about doom and gloom.That play is hard work, I once saw it at an outside performance and it poured with rain all through. When I got home I felt like cutting my wrists.
( It's unlucky to say that Scottish play's name.)

Answer 6

Hey that's my favorite quote from Macbeth. Not that I believe it or anything. But you are right, that's gloomy quote and I haven't heard anything gloomier than that from the bard.

Answer 7

man he should have been a country and western singer instead of the worlds greatest playright.

Answer 8

If so I haven't heard it .
Oh my god!

I bet he was a cutter.

Answer 9

Yes, he did, "To Be or...oh to hell with this I'm going to kill myself!"

Answer 10

Will you marry MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEE? fooop threw himself from a tower