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Quotes About Soliloquy

This is one hell of a suicide note. THE SUICIDE SOLILOQUY- Yes! I've resolved the deed to do, And this the place to do it; The heart I'll rush a dagger through Though I in hell should rue it! Sweet steel! Come forth from out your sheath, And glist'ning, speak your powers; Rip up the organs of my breath, And draw my blood in showers! I strike! It quivers in that heart Which drives me to this end; I draw and kiss the bloody dart, My last-my only friend!
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.
~ Jasper Fforde
Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
~ Franz Werfel
I wish I could weep the way my teacher did as he read us Molly Bloom's soliloquy of yes.
~ Terrance Hayes
I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The first time I saw 'Macbeth' was not the entire play. It was at acting school, and this student was working on Lady Macbeth's soliloquy. I felt something very special, and I knew then that I would one day experience Lady Macbeth, but I always thought it would be on stage and in French.
~ Marion Cotillard
Your whole life doesn't have to be one long, smart monologue.
~ Jim Sarbh
So now I have outlived all the good or interesting characters in this book, and you are left with me. If you do not share my undying fascination with myself, I suggest that you leave out the next bit and carry on down to the top of the last roll.
~ Tom Holt
Her soliloquy crystallized itself into little fragmentary phrases emerging suddenly from the turbulence of her thought, particularly when she had to exert herself in any way, either to move, to count money, or to choose a turning. To know the truth--to accept without bitterness-- those, perhaps, were the most articulate of her utterances, for no one could have made head or tail of the queer gibberish murmured in front of the statue of Francis, Duke of Bedford...
~ Virginia Woolf
Alas, poor YORICK!
~ Laurence Sterne
Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer's 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.
~ Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy
I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that I sometimes don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
~ Oscar Wilde
I like hearing myself talk.  It is one of my greatest pleasures.  I often have long conversations all by myself
~ Oscar Wilde
I like hearing myself talk.  It is one of my greatest pleasures.  I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
~ Oscar Wilde
Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.
~ John Stuart Mill
Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.
~ Unknown
So Mary spoke always, posing each declaration as a question, soliloquy in guise of conversation.
~ Rachel Kadish
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
~ Unknown
M. de Charlus and M. de Sidonia had each of them immediately detected the other's vice, which was in both cases that of soliloquising in society, to the extent of not being able to stand any interruption. Having decided at once that, in the words of a famous sonnet, there was 'no help,' they had made up their minds not to be silent but each to go on talking without any regard to what the other might say.
~ Marcel Proust
Our home planet, as Carl Sagan put it, is a "pale blue dot" . . . The "Pale Blue Dot" is a moving soliloquy by Carl Sagan in his 1980 television series Cosmos. The remake of this series, which aired in 2014 and was hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson, replayed Sagan's soliloquy toward the end of the final episode (episode 13, "Unafraid of the Dark") with stunning graphics to illustrate that the Earth is a "mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
~ Unknown