“It is good that a man's enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth.”
Source: The Outlaw Josey Wales
Act II, The Gothic Chamber
Faust, Part 2 (1832)
“It is good that a man's enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth.”
Source: The Outlaw Josey Wales
Diary entry for the day he died (15 April 1888); from Ecclesiasticus, xxxviii
Matthew Arnold's Notebooks (1902)
Old Grimes, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: Compare: "John Lee is dead, that good old man,— / We ne'er shall see him more; / He used to wear an old drab coat / All buttoned down before", Inscription in Matherne Churchyard, To the memory of John Lee, who died May 21, 1823; "Old Abram Brown is dead and gone,— / You'll never see him more; / He used to wear a long brown coat / That buttoned down before", James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Nursery Rhymes of England, p. 60.
“All right. He's dead. Go ahead and talk to him.”
Fiction, Distress (1995)
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 4.
C 36
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook C (1772-1773)
“Good! Fuck him. I couldn’t be happier that he’s dead.”
On the death of Andrew Breitbart, The Rolling Stones, Andrew Breitbart: Death of a Douche, March 1 2012