Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Today we are all Hokies...


"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,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep:
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to,--'t is a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action."

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 1

2 comments:

kate kiya said...

Beautiful words. Did you know anyone at Virginia Tech?
"Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o're-fraught heart, and bids it break." - William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of Macbeth, IV, iii

Anonymous said...

Thank you KT...many of you don't know me, but I am a current graduate student at VT. I was not involved and did not know anyone directly, but as can be imagined we all know someone by one or two degrees of knowledge. It has definately hit the entire campus and community. Please continue to remember everyone.

Wear your maroon and organge with pride...Hokie Pride!!!