“How can he do this? If you were mine, I would fight to keep you. I would die, before I let you go.”
Juliet Marillier book Daughter of the Forest
Source: Daughter of the Forest
“We would die before you would feel pain.”
El-Sisi addressing the Egyptians http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2013/10/07/egyptian-people-will-never-forget-who-stood-with-them-or-against-them-al-sisi <br class="br">2013
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“For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.”
κρεῖσσον γὰρ εἰσάπαξ θανεῖν
ἢ τὰς ἁπάσας ἡμέρας πάσχειν κακῶς.
Variant translation by John Stuart Blackie (1850):
"Life and life's sorrows? Once to die is better
Than thus to drag sick life."
Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 750–751
Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director
From the eighth book, "The Book of the Seducer"
The Pillow Book
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
"On Genius and Common Sense" <br class="br"> Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)
Jodi Picoult book The Pact
Variant: The gun slipped on Emily's temple, and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.
Source: The Pact
“If everyone could feel everyone else’s pain, who would torture?”
Octavia E. Butler book Parable of the Sower
Source: Parable of the Sower (1993), p. 115
Erich Heckel (1883–1970) German artist
Quote of Heckel, in a letter of 1 September 1906, to the Swiss artist Amiet; as cited by Günter Krüger, in Die Künstlergemeinschaft Brücke und die Schweiz; as quoted in 'Portfolios', Alexander Dückers; in German Expressionist Prints and Drawings - Essays Vol 1.; by Museum Associates, California & Prestel-Verlag, Germany, 1986, p. 70
Amiet's radically simplified art-style obviously attracted the younger artists of Die Brücke