33 Inspirational Hamlet Quotes To Face Your Complications

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a play written in the early 1600s.

The protagonist, Prince of Denmark, has been forced to watch his father die and then was told that he would be the next King. From this point onward, Hamlet is torn between the desire for power and the fear of losing his sanity.

In Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet, the protagonist, Prince of Denmark, is torn over whether or not to avenge his father’s death by killing his uncle, Claudius.

Here are some of the most inspiring and thought-provoking Hamlet quotes that can help you face the complex challenges you may be having in life.

Top 33 Inspirational Hamlet Quotes

1. “Conscience doth make cowards of us all.” ― Hamlet

2. “Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move,. Doubt truth to be a liar,. But never doubt I love.” ― Hamlet

3. “There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow.” ― Hamlet

4. “A knavish speech sleeps in a fool’s ear.” ― Hamlet

5. “Death, the undiscovere’d country, from whose bourn no traveler returns.” ― Hamlet

6. “To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.” ― Hamlet

7. “Thou know’st ‘tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.” ― Hamlet

8. “Though this be madness, yet there is method in ‘t..” ― Hamlet

9. “Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.” ― Hamlet

10. “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” ― Hamlet

11. “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.” ― Hamlet

12. “If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.” ― Hamlet

13. “If your mind dislike anything obey it.” ― Hamlet

14. “There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.” ― Hamlet

15. “My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.” ― Hamlet

16. “Give thy thoughts no tongue.” ― Hamlet

17. “Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be.” ― Hamlet

18. “There is neither good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” ― Hamlet

19. “To die, to sleep—to sleep perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub, for in this sleep of death what dreams may come.” ― Hamlet

20. “One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.” ― Hamlet

21. “When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions!” – Hamlet

22. “Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.” ― Hamlet

23. “There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember.” ― Hamlet

24. “You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.” ― Hamlet

25. “More matter with less art.” ― Hamlet

26. “To be, or not to be: that is the question.” ― Hamlet

27. “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” ― Hamlet

28. “But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.” ― Hamlet

29. “To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.” ― Hamlet

30. “Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man’s censure but reserve thy judgment.” ― Hamlet

31. “Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.” ― Hamlet

32. “Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting that would not let me sleep.” ― Hamlet

33. “Brevity is the soul of wit.” ― Hamlet

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