Hamlet Death Quotes:

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

- William Shakespeare

source: 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

topic: Death, Hamlet Death, Strict, Sergeants

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

- William Shakespeare

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

topic: Hamlet Death, Epitaph, Ill, Hamlet 2

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

- William Shakespeare

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

topic: Life, Death, Nature, Father Died, Morality In Hamlet

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

- William Shakespeare

topic: Inspirational, Death, Courage, Someone Dying, Meaningful Death

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

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

topic: Life, Death, Country, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality In Hamlet

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

topic: Death, Dream, Halloween, Someone Dying, Morality In Hamlet

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

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

topic: Death, Sleep, Heart, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality In Hamlet

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

- William Shakespeare

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

topic: Love, Suicide, Creativity, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality In Hamlet

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

- William Shakespeare

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

topic: Life, Denmark In Hamlet, Hamlet And Ophelia, Horatio, Mortality In Hamlet

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

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

topic: Death, Gone, Hamlet And Ophelia, Ophelia, Hamlet Death

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Death, Dream, Sleep, Someone Dying, Dealing With Death

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

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

topic: Death, Dream, Sleep, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality In Hamlet

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

- William Shakespeare

topic: Death, Patience, Hamlet And Ophelia, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality In Hamlet

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

- William Shakespeare

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

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Happiness, Horatio, Either Or

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

- William Shakespeare

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

topic: Brother, Memories, Remembrance, Mortality In Hamlet, Dear Brother

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

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

topic: Death, Sea, Arrows, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality In Hamlet

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Death, Country, Long Love, Be Or Not To Be, Hamlet Death

O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul that, struggling to be free, art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay! Bow, stubborn knees! and, heart with strings of steel, be soft as sinews of the new-born babe!

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2016). “Hamlet: Revised Edition”, p.361, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Art, Struggle, Angel, Bosoms, Hamlet Death

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Memorable, Political, Rotten, Horatio, Morality In Hamlet

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

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

topic: Sleep, Men, Beast, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality In Hamlet

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

- William Shakespeare

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

topic: Memorable, Men, Looks, Mortality In Hamlet, Hamlet Death

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

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

topic: Weed, Flower, Men, Ophelia, Nettles

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

topic: Love, Boyfriend, Stars, Sun And Stars, Love Literature

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

- William Shakespeare

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

topic: Mother, Love You, Wind, Hamlet Death, Hamlet Theme

Will you walk out of the air, my lord? HAMLET Into my grave.

- William Shakespeare

source: Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.683, Barnes & Noble Publishing

topic: Air, Lord, Polonius, Hamlet Death, Hamlet Significant

And in the morn and liquid dew of youth, Contagious blastments are are most imminent.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Dew, Liquid, Youth, Hamlet Death

No reckoning made, but sent to my account with all my imperfections on my head.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 74

topic: Imperfection, Reckoning, Made, Hamlet Death