Death … It’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing. Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
English critic & novelist (1894 - 1963) Death is the only grammatically correct full stop… Brian Patten, Schoolboy (1990) One dies only once, and then for such a long time! Molière, Le Dépit Amoureux (1656)
French actor & comic dramatist (1622 - 1673) Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess. Heinrich Heine
German critic & poet (1797 - 1856) And come he slow, or come he fast,<br> It is but death who comes at last. Sir Walter Scott, Marmion (1808)
Scottish author & novelist (1771 - 1832) Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish. Sophocles, Electra
Greek tragic dramatist (496 BC - 406 BC) I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure. Clarence Darrow, Medley
US defense lawyer (1857 - 1938) It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. Samuel Johnson, Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784) I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing. Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"
(1865 - 1946) Creditors have better memories than debtors. Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac (1758)
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