Mortality In Hamlet Quotes

• Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Nature

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 72

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• To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dream, Halloween

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Death, Running

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

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• O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

  William Shakespeare

  God, Despair, Use

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 129

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• But that the dread of something after death,
  The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
  No traveller returns, puzzles the will
  And makes us rather bear those ills we have
  Than fly to others that we know not of?

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Country

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and
  heaven?

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Humanity, Hamlet And Ophelia

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.920

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• I do not set my life at a pin's fee,
  And for my soul, what can it do to that,
  Being a thing immortal as itself?

  William Shakespeare

  Soul, Hamlet And Ophelia, Immortality

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 65

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• Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

  William Shakespeare

  Language Words, Heaven, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 3, l. 97

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• To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Sleep, Heart

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.

  William Shakespeare

  Denmark In Hamlet, Tongue, Murder

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [625]

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• Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Disease And Death, Political

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 90

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• To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep No more; and by a sleep, to say we end The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die to sleep, To sleep, perchance to Dream; Aye, there's the rub.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Suicide, Dream

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• From this time forth
  My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!

  William Shakespeare

  Hamlet And Ophelia, Hamlet Revenge, Important Hamlet

  William Shakespeare, Robert Hapgood (1999). “Hamlet”, p.14, Cambridge University Press

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• A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Men, Sea

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 2, l. [29]

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• My words fly up, my thoughts remain below

  Claudius

  Language And Power, Hamlet And Ophelia, Hamlet Revenge

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• Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream—For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause, there's the respect, That makes calamity of so long life

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dream, Sleep

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [259]

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• There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Special, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [232]

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• The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Hamlet And Ophelia, Joints

  1600-1 Hamlet. Hamlet, act1, sc.5, l.189-90.

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• For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dream, Sleep

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Special, Sparrows

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [232]

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• This above all; to thine own self be true.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own read.

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Puff, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 47

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• So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealousy, Memorable, Guilt

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.329, Classic Books Company

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• 'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Patience, Hamlet And Ophelia

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