“Who knows but life be that which men call death,
And death what men call life?”
Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright
Phrixus, Frag. 830
“Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.”
Cupid and Death.
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“JU: Are you thin still?
M: Um, in a crowd, yes. In a crowd of very heavy people.”
Morrissey (1959) English singer
From "LA Confidential", interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Mojo (April 2001)
In interviews etc., About himself and his work
Diogenes Laërtius (180–240) biographer of ancient Greek philosophers
Pyrrho, 8.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 9: Uncategorized philosophers and Skeptics
“To become a crowd is to keep out death.”
Don DeLillo book White Noise
Source: White Noise (1984), Ch. 15
“And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
"The Shape and Society," p. 19
The Shape (2000), Sequence: “Happiness of Atoms”
“Visions of glory, spare my aching sight,
Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!”
III. 1. lines 107-108
The Bard (1757)
“Yes, death, — the hourly possibility of it, — death is the sublimity of life.”
William Mountford (1816–1885) English Unitarian preacher and author
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 177.
“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
“Feeding a crowd?' the woman behind the counter asked.
Yes, ma'am,' Fang said sweetly. I thought.”
James Patterson (1947) American author
Source: Maximum Ride The Angel Experiment
“In fact, a crowd of men acts like a single woman.”
George Goodman (1930–2014) American author and economics commentator
Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 2, Mister Johnson's Reading List, p. 23