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  • To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come.

    Death   Dream   Halloween  
    'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56
  • To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

    1884 The Duke's version of Hamlet's soliloquy, combining elements of other speeches by Hamlet and pieces of Macbeth. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, ch.21.
  • Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is slicked o'er with the pale cast of thought

    Coward   Doe   Hue  
  • Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

    'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [211]
  • 'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

  • Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?

    Real   Men   Play  
    "Dirty Hands". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre (Act 4, Scene 6), April 2, 1948.
  • Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream—For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause, there's the respect, That makes calamity of so long life

    Death   Dream   Sleep  
    'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56
  • To be or not to be is not the question. The question is whether you can transcend these notions.

    Thich Nhat Hanh (2000). “Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers”, p.27, Penguin
  • You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

    Life   Death   Suicide  
    Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.139, W. W. Norton & Company
  • To be, or not to be: what a question!

  • Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?

    Death   Sea   Arrows  
    'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56
  • To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death.

  • It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.

    Funny   Women   Upset  
    Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.45, BookBaby
  • To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep No more; and by a sleep, to say we end The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die to sleep, To sleep, perchance to Dream; Aye, there's the rub.

    Death   Suicide   Dream  
    'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56
  • The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.

    'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56
  • But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?

    Life   Death   Country  
    'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56
  • Everything necessarily is or is not, and will be or will not be; but one cannot divide and say that one or the other is necessary.I mean, for example: it is necessary for there to be or not to be a sea-battle tomorrow; but it is not necessary for a sea-battle to take place tomorrow, or for one not to take place--though it is necessary for one to take place or not to take place.

    Mean   Fate   Sea  
    Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.30, Princeton University Press
  • To be or not to be, that is the choice

  • The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

    'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [242]
  • To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.

    Death   Sleep   Heart  
    'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56
  • I teach contentment. And the basic principle of contentment is to drop your ego. Don`t think for a single moment, "To be or not to be." Just not to be is the rule. What have you gained by trying to be? Just for a change try not to be, and you will be amazed. The moment you are not, there is contentment, there is silence, there is beauty, there is bliss. Meditation is only a methodology to make you aware that your only disease is your ego, and your only health is egolessness.

  • To take arms against a sea of troubles.

    Death   Sea   Speech  
    'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56
  • "To be or not to be is" [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend. I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it's probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.

    Thinking   Mind   Levels  
    Source: www.rawkblog.net
  • The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

    'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56
  • My favorite play is Hamlet. It was my first love when it comes to Shakespeare, and I've read it and seen it performed more than just about every other Shakespeare play. I've had the "To be or not to be" monologue memorized since I was 15, and it's just really close to my heart.

    Heart   First Love   Play  
    Source: www.thegeekgirlproject.com
  • There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

    'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [259]
  • The question is not "To be or not to be," it is what we should be until we are not.

  • [As] authorities "over" us are removed, as we wobble out on our own, the question of whether to be or not to be arises with real relevance for the first time, since the burden of being is felt most fully by the self-determining self.

    Real   Self   Firsts  
    William H. Gass (1978). “The world within the word: essays”, Alfred A. Knopf
  • To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

  • To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.

    The New York Times, December 12, 1974.
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