Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Quotes

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The bad end unhappily; the good, unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs and rhymed couplets, killing each other with wooden swords, hollow protestations of faith hurled after empty promis...

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've...

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Uncertainty is the normal state.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Death is the ultimate negative.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security...

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

A man breaking his journey between one place and another at a third place of no name, character, population or significance, sees a unicorn cross his path and disappear. That in itself is startling, but there are precedents for mystical encounters of...

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Wheels have been set in motion, and they have their own pace, to which we are...condemned. Each move is dictated by the previous one - that is the meaning of order. If we start being arbitrary it'll just be a shambles: at least, let us hope so. Becau...

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

We're actors — we're the opposite of people!

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

GUIL: It [Hamlet's madness] really boils down to symptoms. Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mistaken identities, arguing his father is his mother, that sort of thing; intimations of suicide, forgoing of exercise, loss of mirth, hints of claustroph...

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead