“What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.”
Abraham Polonsky (1910–1999) American politician
Body and Soul (1947).
Source: Mansfield Park
“What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.”
Abraham Polonsky (1910–1999) American politician
Body and Soul (1947).
“The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.”
Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) American general and politician, 7th president of the United States
Said to Martin Van Buren (8 July 1832) and quoted in The Autobiography of Martin Van Buren, published in Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1918, vol. II (1920), ed. John Clement Fitzpatrick, ch. XLIII (p. 625)
Referring to the Second Bank of the United States
1830s
Ralph Compton (1934–1998) American writer
Buck Fletcher in Showdown at Two-Bit Creek; Cited in: Joseph A. West (2004) Ralph Compton, Showdown at Two-Bit Creek, p. 103
William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer
Charlotte Rittenmeyer to Harry Wilbourne, in (Ch. 7) "Wild Palms"; p. 218
The Wild Palms [If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem] (1939)
“The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Source: Walden and Other Writings
“They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill, what never dies.”
William Penn (1644–1718) English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania
127 - 134
Fruits of Solitude (1682), Part II
Context: They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill, what never dies. Nor can Spirits ever be divided that love and live in the same Divine Principle; the Root and Record of their Friendship. If Absence be not death, neither is theirs. Death is but Crossing the World, as Friends do the Seas; They live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is Omnipresent. In this Divine Glass, they see Face to Face; and their Converse is Free, as well as Pure. This is the Comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to Die, yet their Friendship and Society are, in the best Sense, ever present, because Immortal.
Giannina Braschi (1953) Puerto Rican writer
Empire of Dreams (prose poetry, 1988)
“You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
-Mr. Darcy”
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“Oh look, everybody instantly died again! What the hell was that? What killed me?”
TotalBiscuit (1984–2018) British game commentator
WTF Is…? series, Day One: Garry's Incident (October 1, 2013)