On the Death of the Earl of Cadogan.
“And they are gone: ay, ages long ago
These lovers fled away into the storm.”
Stanza 42
Poems (1820), The Eve of St. Agnes
Stanza 9
An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785)
“The living will envy the dead.”
The attribution of this widely quoted remark about nuclear war to Khrushchev is disputed in Respectfully Quoted : A Dictionary of Quotations (1989) http://www.bartleby.com/73/1257.html.
In Russia this quote is usually attributed to the translation of Treasure Island by Nikolay Chukovsky: "А те из вас, кто останется в живых, позавидуют мертвым!" ("Those of you who will be still alive will envy the dead", originally: "Them that die'll be the lucky ones"). http://www.chitaem-vmeste.ru/pages/material.php?article=89&
Disputed
No instance of this statement, allegedly in reference to nuclear war, has been found in Khrushchev's writings or documented remarks, as indicated in Respectfully Quoted : A Dictionary of Quotations (1989) http://www.bartleby.com/73/1257.html. Herman Kahn used "the survivors [will] envy the dead" in his 1960 book On Thermonuclear War.
"Elegy on Sir Philip Sidney" (1593).
“Lo — a black line of birds in wavering thread
Bore him the greetings of the deathless dead!”
The Cranes of Ibicus http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-cranes-of-ibicus/
“One day, when spring has gone and youth has fled,
The Maiden and the flowers will both be dead.”
Source: Dream of the Red Chamber (c. 1760), Chapter 27
All from The Vow of the Peacock - Second Canto
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
