Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead quotes

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Guildenstern
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Rosencrantz
The Player

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

View Quote We only know what we're told, and that's little enough. And for all we know, it isn't even true.

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

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

View Quote Pirates could happen to anyone.

View Quote The scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear.

View Quote There must have been a time, in the beginning, when we could have said – no. But somehow we missed it.

View Quote We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

View Quote We cross our bridges when we come to them, and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

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 The only beginning is birth, and the only end is death – if you can't count on that, what can you count on?

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 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.