“Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.'
Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.”
Source: Beloved
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Albion’s England (published 1612), Book viii. chap. xli. stanza 53.
“To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.”
Source: Women (1978)
Context: I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. On the other hand, when I got drunk I screamed, went crazy, got all out of hand. One kind of behavior didn't fit the other. I didn't care.
“I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.”
Source: Jayber Crow
Source: Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)
“Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.”
Source: Nocturnes
“I die hard but am not afraid to go.”
I believed from my first attack that I should not survive it — my breath cannot last long.
The first sentence here is sometimes presented as being his last statement before dying, but they are reported as part of the fuller statement, and as being said in the afternoon prior to his death in Life of Washington (1859) by Washington Irving, and his actual last words are stated to have been those reported by Tobias Lear below.
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