“This was incredibly foolish. To live just to die. And to die so easily.”
Why the lucky stiff American computer programmer
Collected PDFs (2013)
“This was incredibly foolish. To live just to die. And to die so easily.”
Why the lucky stiff American computer programmer
Collected PDFs (2013)
“So might we die, not envying them that live;
So would we die, not unrevenged all.”
Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) Italian poet
Noi morirem, né invidia avremo ai vivi:
Noi morirem, ma non morremo inulti.
Canto II, stanza 86 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
“Is it then so sad a thing to die?”
Usque adeone mori miserum est?
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book XII, Line 646 (tr. Alexander Thomson)
“The Revolution is so that people can live, not so that they can die!”
Lu Xun (1881–1936) Chinese novelist and essayist
Source: [citation needed]
“There is no Hell when you die
so don't look so worried”
Conor Oberst (1980) American musician
Light Pollution
Digital Ash in a Digital Urn (2005)
Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
“Old man! ’tis not so difficult to die.”
George Gordon Byron book Manfred
Act III, scene iv
Manfred (1817)
“I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring.”
Richard Feynman (1918–1988) American theoretical physicist
last words (15 February 1988), according to James Gleick, in Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1992), p. 438