“"And shall I die? and unrevenged?" she said:
"Yes! let me die! thus—thus I plunge in night."”
Charles Symmons (1749–1826) Welsh poet
Book IV, lines 887–888
The Æneis (1817)
“I shall die unavenged, but I shall die,"
she says. "Thus, thus, I gladly go below
to shadows.”
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IV, Lines 659–660 (tr. Allen Mandelbaum)
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“Before I became old I tried to live well; now that I am old, I shall try to die well; but dying well means dying gladly.”
Ante senectutem curavi ut bene viverem, in senectute ut bene moriar; bene autem mori est libenter mori.
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXI: On meeting death cheerfully, Line 2.
“I shall be like that tree; I shall die from the top.”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
Predicting that he would go senile, as quoted in The Highway of Letters and its Echos of Famous Footsteps (1893) by Thomas Archer, p. 380
“And shall I die? and unrevenged?”
Charles Symmons (1749–1826) Welsh poet
she said:
"Yes! let me die! thus—thus I plunge in night."
Book IV, lines 887–888
The Æneis (1817)
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25758762M/Dorothy_Parker_Complete_Broadway_1918-1923, Chapter 5: 1922
“I shall eat cheese before I die contented.”
James Wolfe (1727–1759) British Army officer
Source: Last words, on hearing of the defeat of the French at Quebec. Quoted in Francis Parkman's Montcalm and Wolfe