生存还是毁灭

“生存还是毁灭”（英语：To be, or not to be），是莎士比亚戏剧作品《哈姆雷特》第三幕第一场，哈姆雷特王子一段独白的第一句前半部，很多人也会用这句来指整段独白。在王子的演讲中，他考虑了死亡与自杀，哀叹这痛苦又不公的生活，也承认另一种选择可能会更糟。这段开场白是世界文学、戏剧与音乐作品中常见被引用的一句，整句是：「生存还是毁灭，这是一个值得考虑的问题」（To be or not to be, that is the question）。

== 文本 ==

=== 通行文本 ===
此版本的底本为第一对开本（1623），参照第二四开本（1604-1605）校订，并以现代正字法拼写。

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 heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep,
To sleep, perchance to Dream; aye, 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 dispised Love, the Law’s delay,
The insolence of Office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,
When he himself might his Quietus make
With a bare Bodkin? Who would…