Quotes by Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

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Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving? — Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
We're actors — we're the opposite of people! — Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while o — Tom Stoppard, 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. — Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure. — Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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, — Tom Stoppard, 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 writ — Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
GUIL: It [Hamlet's madness] really boils down to symptoms. Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mistaken identities, argu — Tom Stoppard, 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 significa — Tom Stoppard, 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 — Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought. — Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
The bad end unhappily; the good, unluckily. That is what tragedy means. — Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. — Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Uncertainty is the normal state. — Tom Stoppard, 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 — Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Death is the ultimate negative. — Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires. — Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
GUIL (quietly): Where we went wrong was getting on a boat. We can move, of course, change direction, rattle about, but o — Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Free to move, speak, extemporize, and yet. We have not been cut loose. Our truancy is defined by one fixed star, and our — Tom Stoppard, 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 — Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead