March : The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Act 1 Scene 2, full text available Open Source Shakespeare
How Runs the Oracle?: Oedipus Rex [Oedipus the King] by Sophocles, trans. F. Storr, full text available via The Internet Classics Archive.
We Have Seen Better Days: Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare, Act 4 Scene 2
I Am Alive, They in Their Graves: ‘The Dialogue of Gwyddno Garanhir and Gwyn ap Nudd’, The Black Book of Carmarthen XXXIII, from The Four Ancient Books of Wales, online translation by William Forbes Skene at the Celtic Literature Collective. The line is translated ‘they in’ not ‘they’re in’, and it is preserved that way in the chapter heading.
Another Battle There Is, In His Eye-Socket: ‘The Battle of the Trees’, in The Book of Taliesin VIII, from Skene’s The Four Ancient Texts of Wales, full text here – Skene translates ‘Eye-Socket’ into Latin as ‘occiput’, the change for the purposes of the chapter heading is mine.
Behind Sorrow There Is Always Sorrow: De Profundis, Oscar Wilde, p. 9
What I Did I Should Never Have Done: ‘The First Song of Yscolan’, The Black Book of Carmarthen XXXIII, from The Four Ancient Books of Wales, online translation by William Forbes Skene at the Celtic Literature Collective.
Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves: ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’ by Oscar Wilde
The Breaking of So Great a Thing: Anthony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, Act 5 Scene 1
A Heavy Grief to Me: ‘Canu Heledd’, The Red Book of Hergest XVI, from The Four Ancient Books of Wales trans. Skene, full text available at The Celtic Literature Collective.
The World You Desire Can Be Won: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Love in Banishment: ‘Embrace each other’s love in banishment’ is the full line, from Richard II by William Shakespeare, Act 1 Scene 3.
What a Piece of Work is a Man: Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Act 2 Scene 2
There Are Consequences: The Christian Religion: An Enquiry, by Robert G. Ingersoll. The full quote is, ‘There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.’ Full text available at Project Gutenberg.
Bound By No Human Rules: ‘I believe that in public worship we should do well to be bound by no human rules…’, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Flashes of Thought: 1000 choice extr. from the works of C. H. Spurgeon, (1874), p. 506.
He Was So Perfectly Restored: Bede’s Ecclesiastical History, Chapter XIX, trans. C. L. Jane, full text available via the Medieval Sourcebook.
Fearless, And Therefore Powerful: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley, chapter 20
The Terrors of the Earth: King Lear by William Shakespeare, Act 2 Scene 4
Let Us Now Depart In Peace: Dismissal, often used in the Church of England, sung to the tune Dismissal by George Whelpton (1847-1930).
This Revolting Graveyard: Nyarlathotep by H. P. Lovecraft
Even Death May Die: The Call of Cthulhu, by H. P. Lovecraft
Masters of Their Fates: Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Act 1 Scene 2