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Ophelia Quotes

O, treble woe
Fall ten times treble on that cursed head,
Whose wicked deed thy most ingenious sense
Deprived thee of! Hold off the earth awhile,
Till I have caught her once more in mine arms.

– William Shakespeare

Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 1. When Laertes sees Ophelia being buried, he is devastated. He leaps into his sister’s grave so he can hold her once more in his arms like a protective brother.

I thought thy bride-bed to have decked, sweet maid,
And not have strewed thy grave.

– William Shakespeare

Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 1. Gertrude says she thought she would be scattering flowers on Ophelia’s wedding bed with Hamlet, not stewing them on her grave.
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