hamlet and death
1) HAMLET
No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it: as thus: Alexander died,
Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is earth; of earth we make loam; and why of that loam,
whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel?
Imperious Caesar, dead and turnd to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away: O, that that earth, which kept the
world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the winter flaw! (5.1.30
2)KING CLAUDIUS
Though yet of Hamlet our dear brothers death The memory be green, and that it us befitted To bear our hearts in grief and
our whole kingdom To be contracted in one brow of woe,Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature That we with wisest
sorrow think on him,Together with remembrance of ourselves.(1.2.1)
3)QUEEN GERTRUDE
Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off, And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.
Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust:
Thou knowst tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.(1.2.2)
4)To be, or not to be: that is the question. (Act III, Scene I)
5)HAMLET
Not a whit, we defy augury: theres a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, tis not to come; if it be
not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he
leaves, what ist to leave betimes? Let be. (5.2.37)