Hamlet Death 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Why, what should be the fear?
  I do not set my life at a pin's fee.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Denmark In Hamlet, Hamlet And Ophelia

  William Shakespeare (2008). “Hamlet”, p.46, Palgrave Macmillan

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• He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Gone, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [29]

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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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• 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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• 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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• '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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• This fell sergeant, Death, Is strict in his arrest.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Strict, Sergeants

  William Shakespeare (1809). “The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators, to which are added notes by S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised and augmented by I. Reed, with a glossarial index”, p.283

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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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• Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.

  William Shakespeare

  Brother, Memories, Remembrance

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

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• 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?

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Sea, Arrows

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

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• The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Country, Long Love

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

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• After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.

  William Shakespeare

  Epitaph, Ill, Hamlet 2

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [553]

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• O wretched state! o bosom black as death!

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Black, States

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello”, p.327

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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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• What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Men, Beast

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 4, l. 32

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• He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Men, Looks

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 187

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• There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them: There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke; When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Flower, Men

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 7, l. 167

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• Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Boyfriend, Valentines Day

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [115]

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• So loving to my mother,
  That he might not beteem the winds of heaven,
  Visit her face' too roughly.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Love You, Wind

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

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