O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a King of infinite space.
Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them?
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe 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 endThe heart-ache and the thousand natural shocksThat flesh is heir to. […] To die, to sleep;To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
EMILIA: 'Tis not a year or two shows us a man.They are all but stomachs and we all but food;They eat us hungerly, and when they are full They devour us.
Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then is heard no more. It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.