Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead quotes

View Quote Audiences know what they expect, and that is all they are prepared to believe in.

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

View Quote For a handful of coin I happen to have a private and uncut performance of "The Rape of the Sabine Women," or rather woman, or rather Alfred, and for eight you can participate.

View Quote Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have gotten about as bad as they can reasonably get.

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

View Quote Has it ever happened to you that all of a sudden and for no reason at all you haven't the faintest idea how to spell the word – "wife" – or "house" – because when you write it down, you just can't remember ever having seen those letters in that order before …?

View Quote I congratulate you on the unambiguity of your situation.

View Quote If we had a destiny, then so had he, and if this is ours, then that was his, and if there are no explanations for us, then let there be none for him.

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 Life is a gamble, at terrible odds – if it was a bet, you wouldn't take it.

View Quote My talent is more general. I extract significance from melodrama, a significance which it does not, in fact, contain.

View Quote No, no, no … you've got it all wrong … you can't act death. The fact of it is nothing to do with seeing it happen – it's not gasps and blood and falling about – that isn't what makes it death. It's just a man failing to reappear, that's all – now you see him, now you don't, that's the only thing that's real: here one minute and gone the next and never coming back – an exit, unobtrusive and unannounced, a disappearance gathering weight as it goes on, until, finally, it is heavy with death.

View Quote Pirates could happen to anyone.

View Quote Pragmatism?! Is that all you have to offer?