“To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.”
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About this quote
Hamlet is alone in the castle at night and has just been told that his mother has remarried. The speech is the most quoted in English literature, and it is an argument about what a person is obliged to consider, not only about death.
Source: Hamlet, Act III Scene I