Rosencrantz quotes

View Quote Half of what he said meant something else, and the other half didn't mean anything at all.

View Quote Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?

View Quote Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance, at least. You could lie there thinking, "Well. At least I'm not dead."

View Quote Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occurred to you that you don't go on forever. Must have been shattering, stamped into one's memory. And yet, I can't remember it. It never occurred to me at all. We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.

View Quote We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?

View Quote Be happy – if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on.

View Quote To sum up: your father, whom you love, dies, you are his heir, you come back to find that hardly was the corpse cold before his young brother popped onto his throne and into his sheets, thereby offending both legal and natural practice. Now why exactly are you behaving in this extraordinary manner?