O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space - were it not that I have bad dreams

O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space - were it not that I have bad dreams

The quote “O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space - were it not that I have bad dreams” is from William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. This line is spoken by Hamlet in Act 2, Scene 2, as he reflects on the constraints of his own mind and the torment of his troubled thoughts.