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We were alone with the quiet day, and his little heart, dispossessed, had stopped.
Henry James1843–1916The Turn of the Screw (1898), Chapter XXIVIn context
‘To die will be an awfully big adventure.’
J. M. Barrie1860–1937Peter Pan (1911), Chapter VIIIIn context
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of living.
Alexandre Dumas1802–1870The Count of Monte Cristo (1844), Volume Five, Chapter 117In context
- Happiness
Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down at the table and let us drink. Nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin.
Alexandre Dumas1802–1870The Three Musketeers (1844), Chapter XLVIIIIn context
- Philosophy
Ye who suffer because ye love, love yet more. To die of love, is to live in it.
Victor Hugo1802–1885Les Misérables (1862), Volume IV: Saint-Denis, Book Fifth: The End of Which Does Not Resemble the Beginning, Chapter IVIn context
- Love
Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!… How true it is! Good God, how true! Man is a vile creature!… And vile is he who calls him vile for that
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881Crime and Punishment (1867), Part II, Chapter VIIn context
Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strange soundeth the precept: “Die at the right time!”
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883–1885), First Part, XXIIn context
Had I but died an hour before this chance,
I had liv’d a blessed time; for, from this instant
There’s nothing serious in mortality.
All is but toys: renown and grace is dead;
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act II, Scene III, spoken by MacbethIn context
Duncan is in his grave;
After life’s fitful fever he sleeps well;
Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison,
Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing
Can touch him further.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act III, Scene II, spoken by MacbethIn context
Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act IV, Scene V, spoken by CapuletIn context
Eyes, look your last.
Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act V, Scene III, spoken by RomeoIn context
- Love
As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods,
They kill us for their sport.
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (c. 1606), Act IV, Scene I, spoken by GloucesterIn context
- God
Men must endure
Their going hence, even as their coming hither;
Ripeness is all.
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (c. 1606), Act V, Scene II, spoken by EdgarIn context
- Maturity
Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stone.
Had I your tongues and eyes, I’ld use them so
That heaven’s vault should crack. She’s gone for ever!
I know when one is dead, and when one lives;
She’s dead as earth.
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (c. 1606), Act V, Scene III, spoken by LearIn context
Put out the light, and then put out the light
William Shakespeare1564–1616Othello (c. 1604), Act V, Scene II, spoken by OthelloIn context