Vladimir Boxer, " Between Heaven and Earth: Human Rights and Politics in the Chechen War https://web.archive.org/web/20071208080814/http://www.ciaonet.org/conf/jfk04/jfk04ac.html", The Caucasus and the Caspian: 1996–1998 Seminar Series (July 10, 1998).
“When an old person dies who has been a part of your life, it is part of your youth that dies.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
Source: I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994), p. 538
Will Eisner (1917–2005) American cartoonist
Source: The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (10/2/2005), p.31
“What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?”
Erich Segal book Love Story
Source: Love Story
“He died full of years and of glory.”
Plenus annis abit, plenus honoribus.
Pliny the Younger (61–113) Roman writer
Letter 1, 7.
Letters, Book II
Newt Gingrich (1943) Professor, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
Source: As quoted in Newsweek, ‘Spiro Agnew With Brains’ http://archive.is/QsR1g, (27 November 1994)
Zbigniew Brzeziński (1928–2017) Polish-American political scientist
Interview in The Huffington Post - NATO Should Stop Putin From Restoring Czarist Empire, Zbigniew Brzezinski Says http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/03/zbigniew-brzezinski-nato-putin-ukraine_n_5760068.html (September 3, 2014). Commenting on criticisms of NATO expansion to Eastern Europe.
“She was beautiful when she died—a hundred years ago.”
Garrett Fort (1900–1945) screenwriter
Prof. Von Helsing (Edward Van Sloan)
Dracula's Daughter (1936)
“A hundred years die in a moment, just as a moment dies in a moment.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Mueren cien años en un instante, lo mismo que un instante en un instante.
Voces (1943)
Erich Segal (1937–2010) American writer
Variant: What can you say about a twenty-five year old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. The Beatles. And me.
