“Thus conscience does make cowards of us all…”

This quote comes in the play, in the middle of the to be or not to be speech. This is said at the part where he is thinking about what may come after death. He says that the conscience makes cowards of us all because we think about what may happen because of our actions, in this case that we are scared to face what may come after death because all man is scared of the unknown. We would rather suffer in what we know that to brave the unknown with the chance that is might get better because with the same chance that it might get better it might get worse. Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.