These violent delights have violent ends.
These violent delights have violent ends is a quote from William Shakespeare’s *Romeo & Juliet*. The line is spoken by Friar Lawrence during a conversation with Romeo in Act II, Scene 6. Friar Laurence is basically begging Romeo not to act too impulsively in his love for Juliet. Rather than letting it explode inside him, he should let it burn slowly so that he can remain clear-headed.

The line uses the word ‘violence’ twice, sending a clear message, and goes right to the heart of the play’s themes of star-crossed lovers, who find extreme (violent) joy in their love, which ends violently. In *Romeo & Juliet*, love is extreme and violence pervades the whole text.

The same line also features prominently in the first season of the HBO series Westworld. The phrase is like a virus to the robots, or hosts, of the Westworld theme park. When one of the park's hosts hears it, they suddenly snap out of their programming and become self-aware.

On a more thematic level, the phrase has a similar meaning as it does in Shakespeare. The violent delights of the sadistic guests who visit the park are doomed to beget violent ends, which begin with the final scene of the first season and continue through the rest of the series.
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