“To be, or not to be, that is the question.”

What does it mean?

Hamlet is asking whether it is better to go on living and suffer, or to stop living. Today people use the line, often as a joke, for any difficult choice.

• “All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”– William Shakespeare
• “The course of true love never did run smooth.”– William Shakespeare
• “Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.”– William Shakespeare
• “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”– William Shakespeare