If there be cords, or knives,
Poison, or fire, or suffocating streams,
I’ll not endure it.
– William Shakespeare
Othello, Act 3, Scene 3. Othello tells Iago how he feels tortured by jealousy. He is talking about how he cannot endure that Desdemona has soiled her once virtuous reputation with a supposed sexual affair with Cassio. This line is foreshadowing of Othello’s suicide.