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- ‘To sleep, perchance to dream,’ is one of the many often quoted lines in Hamlet’s ‘ To be or not to be ‘ soliloquy in act 3, scene 1 of Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet. The soliloquy is a logical expression of Hamlet’s thinking on the subject of death.
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To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; 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; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs ...
Nov 12, 2021 · Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep; ‘To sleep, perchance to dream’: in other words, if death is but a sleep, and dying is just like falling asleep, then perhaps (‘perchance’) we will dream after death. Perhaps the afterlife will be full of dreams.
To die, to sleep. To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub, 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.
‘To sleep, perchance to dream,’ is one of the many often quoted lines in Hamlet’s ‘To be or not to be‘ soliloquy in act 3, scene 1 of Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet. The soliloquy is a logical expression of Hamlet’s thinking on the subject of death.
'Tis a consummation. Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep, To sleep, perchance to Dream; aye, there's the rub, 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:
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks. That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation. Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub: 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.
Jun 2, 2020 · To die, to sleep— 1767 No more—and by a sleep to say we end 1768 70 The heartache and the thousand natural shocks 1769 That flesh is heir to—’tis a consummation 1770 Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep— 1771 To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there’s the rub, 1772 For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,