Hamlet Quotes

This place looks like the last scene in Hamlet.

~ Patricia Briggs

They say an old man is twice a child

~ William Shakespeare

Mad I call it, for to define true madness, what is't to be nothing else but mad?

~ William Shakespeare

He was digging in his garden--digging, too, in his own mind, laboriously turning up the substance of his thought. Death--and he drove in his spade once, and again, and yet again. And all our yesterdays have lighted fools they way to dusty death. A convincing thunder rumbled through the words. He lifted another spadeful of earth. Why had Linda died? Why had she been allowed to become gradually less than human and at last... He shuddered. A good kissing carrion. He planted his foot on his spade and stamped it fiercely into the tough ground. As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kills us for their sport. Thunder again; words that proclaimed themselves true--truer somehow than truth itself. And yet that same Gloucester had called them ever-gentle gods. Besides, thy best of rest is sleep, and that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st thy death which is no more. No more than sleep. Sleep. Perchance to dream. His spade struck against a stone; he stooped to pick it up. For in that sleep of death, what dreams...?

~ Aldous Huxley

It is something to have gazed on the constellated white, felt it running from the eyes and the pores: the salt of love. It is something to have whispered wild thank-yous in the only ways we know how.

~ Bryana Johnson

More grief to hide than hate to utter love. Polonius, Hamlet.

~ William Shakespeare

It is hardly surprising that there are more things in heaven and earth, dear reader, than have been dreamed of in our philosophy - or in our physics.

~ Carlo Rovelli

They are near the bottom of the food chain - a meal for fish and birds - while humans eat from the top of the food chain, consuming an astonishing array of what lies on the planet. But eventually, even we become food for the worms. Shakespeare saw this connection, writing in Hamlet, A man may fish with a worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of a fish that hath fed of that worm.

~ Amy Stewart

That thing that Hamlet says - there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. Not quite true if you are stuck under a grand piano, not quite true for genocide, but surely it must be true about love?

~ Deborah Meyler

Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.

~ Ben Kingsley