Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, no--what you've been is not on boats. Tom Stoppard
About This Quote

This quote comes from the play "Hamlet," by William Shakespeare. In it, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern eavesdrop on Hamlet and Ophelia's conversation. They keep interrupting to ask Hamlet questions, but without really listening to him. The quote above is a perfect example of how they don't understand that death isn't a boat or a thing.

Source: Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead

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