Mortality, humanity, and fate

Quote

Character

Act/Scene

“All that lives must die”

Gertrude

Act 1 Scene 2

“What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.”

Hamlet

Act 2 Scene 2

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so”

Hamlet

Act 2 Scene 2

“And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me”

Hamlet

Act 2 Scene 2

“To be or not to be: that is the question...”

Hamlet

Act 3 Scene 1

“For who would bear the whips and scorn of time,

/ Th’ oppressor’s wrong... When he himself might his quietus make/With a bare bodkin?”

Hamlet

Act 3 Scene 1

“Makes us rather bear those ills we have”

Hamlet

Act 3 Scene 2

“Some necessary question of the play be then to be considered”

Hamlet

Act 3 Scene 2

“Sir, I lack advancement”

Hamlet

Act 3 Scene 3

“The conscience does make cowards of us all”

Hamlet

Act 3 Scene 3

“I must be cruel only to be kind”

Hamlet

Act 3 Scene 4

“What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed?”

Hamlet

Act 4 Scene 4

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies.

But in battalions!”

Claudius

Act 4 Scene 5

“That skull had a tongue in it and could sing once”

Hamlet

Act 5 Scene 1

“A man’s life no more than to say ‘one’”

Hamlet

Act 5 Scene