Hamlet Quote

HAMLET

Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt,

Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,

Or that the Everlasting had not fixed

His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God, God!

How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable

Seem to me all the uses of this world!

Fie on ’t, ah fie! 'Tis an unweeded garden

That grows to seed. Things rank and gross in nature

Possess it merely. That it should come to this.

But two months dead—nay, not so much, not two.

So excellent a king, that was to this
hyperion to a satyr. So loving to my mother.

That he might not beteem the winds of heaven

Visit her face too roughly.—Heaven and earth,

Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him

As if increase of appetite had grown

By what it fed on, and yet, within a month—

Let me not think on ’t. Frailty, thy name is woman!—

A little month, or ere those shoes were old

With which she followed my poor father’s body,

Like Niobe, all tears. Why she, even she—

O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason

Would have mourned longer!—married with my uncle,

My father’s brother, but no more like my father

Than I to Hercules. Within a month,

Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears

Had left the flushing in her gallèd eyes,

She married. O most wicked speed, to post

With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!

It is not nor it cannot come to good,

But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.

I think this quote best describes Hamlet because it shows many different sides of his emotional status and how he handles himself. This quote mentions his dad, mom, and his uncle which is nice to see who stands an importance in Hamlet's life. Hamlet seems very dramatic and emotionally stressed about his father's death and his mother's new love. Hamlet has to learn how to handle his father's death in a positive way, but it is so hard for him to focus on his emotional health when his mother moves on to a new marriage so quickly. Throughout the amount of play that i have read and understood, i believe this quote from Hamlet speaks a lot about who Hamlet is. Hamlet changes from a stressed guost hunting man into a caring, upset boy.