Hamlet

Act 3, Sc. 1, lines 57-89: What does Hamlet wish for when he says, "To die, to sleep" (line 67)?

Hamlet. To die - to sleep,

No more; and by a sleep to say we end

The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks

That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wished.

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Hamlet wishes for death. He often muses about killing himself but wonders if God would punish him or, in this case, the afterlife is worse than his present life.