History Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer

Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in all of…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at once, they couldn’t, because there aren’t enough skulls!”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“In other words, if everyone wants to play Hamlet all at once, they couldn't because there aren't enough skulls.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“...imagine anybody having lived forty-five or fifty years without knowing Hamlet! One might as well spend one's life in a coal mine.”

— Hector Berlioz

“and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any…

— Stephen King

“I’ve read Hamlet, I know men suffer.”

— Andrea Dworkin

“Hamlet: “He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.”

— Robert A. Caro

“A life without once reading Hamlet is like a life spent in a coal mine.”

— Hector Berlioz

“Hamlet: … for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so…”

— Hamlet Act 2 scene 2

“It would be insane to call Hamlet a loser, though he has lost and I think that is the lesson of tragedy.”

— Alain de Botton

“All of this is really impossible, in the way that it is really impossible that monkeys should by chance type out a copy of…

— Hilary Putnam

“Without those peak experiences our lives would be pretty dull and flat. Berlioz put it this way: A life without once reading Hamlet is…

— Haruki Murakami