Quotes About To Be Or Not To Be

#1. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.

Chuck Palahniuk

#2. A new report claims that William Shakespeare was a marijuana user and may have been high when he wrote some of his plays. Which explains that one line: 'To be, or not to be ... Wait, what was the question?'

Jimmy Fallon

#3. In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, "to be, or not to be, that is the question." In the 21st century, "to code, or not to code, that is the challenge.

Newton Lee

#4. The question is not "To be or not to be," it is what we should be until we are not.

Soren Kierkegaard

#5. As Shakespeare once wrote...To be or not to be.. And my answer to that is, yes. You're meant to be. And that your life - and every other life matters, as we're all connected as one.

Atle Jarnaes Leroy

#6. If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a prince, and he says, 'To be or not to be.'"

Orlando Bloom

#7. [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.

William H Gass

#8. To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin
That makes calamity of so long life;

Mark Twain

#9. To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

Jean-Luc Godard

#10. To be or not to be, fucked up on whiskey, that is the question.

Robert Black

#11. To be, or not to be: what a question!

E.A. Bucchianeri

#12. To be or not to be is not the question, the vital question is how to be and how not to be ...

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#13. To be or not to be. Choose be.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. To BE or not to BE depends on what you BElieve. If you BElieve you BElong, then that is how you will BEhave! BE-cause that is what you BE and have. So help others BEhave by helping them to BElieve they BElong. And then, everyone can always say they BE-LIVED!

Jack A. Langedijk

#15. To be or not to be what exactly?

Chloe Thurlow

#16. Reason is your means of survival - so that for you, who are a human being, the question 'to be or not to be' is the question 'to think or not to think..'.

Ayn Rand

#17. And To be or not to be, that is the question;
Whether 't is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or, by opposing, end them.

William Shakespeare

#18. Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul.

Jones Very

#19. To be, or not to be ... a potato

Me

#20. To be or not to be" was the telephone number of the municipal gas chambers of the Federal Bureau of Termination.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

#22. To be or not to be, that is the choice

Daniel Lee Edstrom

#23. To be or not to be, that is not a question, because reality transcends both notions of birth and death, of being and non-being.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#24. To be or not to be; ay, there's the point',

William Shakespeare

#25. To be or not to be. God's gift to animals is they don't get a choice.

Chuck Palahniuk

#26. 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.

Ian Doescher

#27. Love Was
Love Will Be
But Most of All,
Love is.
Life Cannot Be Without It
It is found in the Womb
In The Woods
In The Stars.
To Be or Not to Be
To Love, or not to Love
They Are Equal.
My Soul Whispers Into the Spaces.
Yes.

Cindy Martinusen Coloma

#28. 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?

Jean-Paul Sartre

#29. You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

Chuck Palahniuk

#30. To be or not to be?' That is not the question. What is the question? The question is not one of being, but of becoming. 'To become more or not to become more' This is the question faced by each intelligence in our universe.

Truman G. Madsen

#31. I was emotional. I wanted to be taken seriously. I was pretty emo. I was reciting Shakespeare monologues when I was 10. I still know the whole 'To be, or not to be ... ' monologue, because I knew it when I was 10.

Constance Wu

#32. Five billion people have played Hamlet. 'To be or not to be.' And how do you do that and find your way into your own journey, your own way of telling it?

Annette Bening

#33. Now or neverI 'To be or not to be!' - Oblomov raised himself from his chair a little, but failing to find his slippers with his feet at once, sat down again.

Ivan Goncharov

#34. To be or not to be wasn't the question meant; it was the secret answer hidden in riddled defense.

Michael Anthony Gill-Branion

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

Golda Meir

#36. LEELA: 'To be, or not to be, that is the question.' That is a very stupid question!
THE DOCTOR: It's Shakespeare.
LEELA: And that is a very stupid name. You do not shake a spear, you throw it! Throwspeare, now that is a name.

John Dorney

#37. 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.

Al Goldstein

#38. What indeed is there to say? To be or not to be married, that was the question, and they had decided it in the affirmative.

E. M. Forster

#39. to be or not to be

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

#40. The greatest lessons I learned from my father didn't come from lectures or discipline or even time spent together. What has stuck with me is his example. From watching, I chose whether to be or not to be like him.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#41. To be friends.... or not... to be or not... to be or not....

Deyth Banger

#42. Life is choice. You can choose to be who you dream to be or not to be. It all lies in the choice you make every day!

Israelmore Ayivor

#43. To be or not to be, that's the question

William Shakespeare

#44. My brain didn't seem to want to conform itself to the task at hand and kept wandering to stupid things like a compulsion to line up all the blue M&Ms or count how many times the word "to" appeared in the "To be or not to be" speech (fifteen, as it turns out).

E.E. Holmes

#45. To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.

Tom Robbins

#46. To be or not to be ... that is an incomplete question. Dr. Jayce O'Neal

Jayce O'Neal

#47. Borrowing Hans Burger's clever introduction to his expansive treatment of union with Christ, "To be or not to be - in Christ - that is the question.

David B Garner

#48. The world's gone mad: joining it is the only solution.

Brandon Sanderson

#49. Photography is the mirror, more faithful than any actual mirror, in which we witness at every age, our own aging. The actual mirror accompanies us through time, thoughtfully and treacherously; it changes with us, so that we appear not to change.

Christian Metz

#50. It is certainly not unrealistic to think we could have elections by mid-year 2004 and when a sovereign government is installed - my job here will be done.

Paul Bremer

#51. The more I learned about games, the more frustrated I became because the games weren't very good. I could tell a good game from a bad game. My conclusion was: let's make our own games.

Satoshi Tajiri

#52. Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.

Marlon Brando