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For 'tis not in mere death that men die most.
(Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), British poet. Aurora Leigh, bk. 3, l. 12 (1857).)
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I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.
(D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885-1930), British author. Letter, June 2, 1915. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, vol. 2, eds. George J. Zytaruk and James T. Boulton (1981).)
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For 'tis not in mere death that men die most.
(Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), British poet. Aurora Leigh, bk. 3, l. 12 (1857).)
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As a Christian, as an individual, as a doctor, I am absolutely opposed to the death penalty.
(Joycelyn Elders (b. 1933), U.S. pediatrician and educator; first woman (and second African American) Surgeon General of the United States. As quoted in the New York Times Magazine, p. 16 (January 30, 1994).
Recalling the murder of her brother and explaining why she would not have advocated the death penalty for his murderer.)
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Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more "successful" because they use surer weapons, like guns.
(Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940), U.S. author, educator. "Real Men Don't Die," The Man in the Water, Random House (1994).)
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Thus roving on
In confus'd march forlorn, th' adventrous Bands,
With shuddring horror pale, and eyes agast
View'd first thir lamentable lot, and found
No rest: through many a dark and drearie Vale
They pass'd, and many a Region dolorous,
O'er many a Frozen, many a fierie Alpe,
Rocks, Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and shades of death,
A Universe of death, which God by curse
Created evil, for evil only good,
Where all life dies, death lives, and Nature breeds,
Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things,
Abominable, inutterable, and worse
Than Fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd,
Gorgons and Hydras, and Chimeras dire.
(John Milton (1608-1674), British oet. Paradise Lost (l. Bk. II, l. 614-628).
OBS. The Complete Poetry of John Milton. John T. Shawcross, ed. (1963, rev. ed. 1971) Doubleday.)
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... moving on the shuttle toward death
just as my mind moves over
for its own little death.
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "Hog.")
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Is it sin
To rush into the secret house of death
Ere death dare come to us?
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Cleopatra, in Antony and Cleopatra, act 4, sc. 15, l. 80-2.
Contemplating suicide.)
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