“O that this too too solid flesh would melt” | Suicide |
“Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d his canon ‘gainst self-slaughter” | Suicide |
“stale, flat and unprofitable” | Suicide |
“to be or not to be” | Suicide |
“contagion to this world” | Suicide |
“Shards, flints and pebbles should be thrown on her” | Suicide |
“is she to be buried in a christian burial when she wilfully seeks her own salvation?” | Suicide |
“I am more an antique roman than dane, here’s yet some liquor left” | Suicide |
“That skull had a tongue in it and could sing once” | Hamlet’s obsession with death |
“Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away” | Hamlet’s obsession with death |
“Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returned into dust; the dust is earth; of ear th we make loam:and why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop at a beer-barrel?” | Hamlet’s obsession with death |
“a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar” | Hamlet’s obsession with death |
“Since no man knows aught of what he leaves, what is’t to leave betimes? Let be.” | Hamlet’s obsession with death |
LAERTES: “I am justly killed with my own treachery” | Death of characters |
HAMLET: “Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage”, “Now cracks a noble heart” | Death of characters |
CLAUDIUS: “He is justly served, it is a poison tempered by himself” | Death of characters |
QUEEN: “The king, the king’s to blame” | Death of characters |
OPHELIA: “is she to be buried in a Christian burial when she wilfully seeks her own salvation?” | Death of characters |
POLONIUS: “I’ll lug the guts into the neighbour room” | Death of characters |
Death quotes from ‘Hamlet’
July 20, 2019