
“How can he do this? If you were mine, I would fight to keep you. I would die, before I let you go.”
Source: Daughter of the Forest
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
2013
“How can he do this? If you were mine, I would fight to keep you. I would die, before I let you go.”
Source: Daughter of the Forest
“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
Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)
From the eighth book, "The Book of the Seducer"
The Pillow Book
"On Genius and Common Sense"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)
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?”
Source: Parable of the Sower (1993), p. 115
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