To sleep, perchance to dream-ay, there’s the rub,įor in that sleep of death what dreams may come That flesh is heir to-’tis a consummation The heartache and the thousand natural shocks Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,Īnd, by opposing, end them? To die, to sleep. The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer To be, or not to be? That is the question. First, here is Hamlet’s soliloquy in its entirety. There’s more to it, of course, than “to be or not to be.” Here are some features the speech that you may not have been aware of. It’s likely that you have heard, read, or said the famous opening words of the speech: ‘to be or not to be.’ Hamlet’s soliloquy contains what is probably the most-quoted line in all of Shakespeare: ‘to be or not to be.’ TIME’s compilation of the top 15 Shakespeare quotes put it at the top of their list.
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