Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.
Theodor W. Adorno
Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
Aeschylus
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
Death is softer by far than tyranny.
For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.
Casey Affleck
Death can't be so bad if mom went through it. It makes it easier for the child to follow.
Danny Aiello
It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.
Anna Akhmatova
All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.
Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death... →