Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
No. 25 (29 March 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
“Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.”
— E.M. Forster, book Howards End
Source: Howards End (1910), Ch. 41
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Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
No. 25 (29 March 1711)
The Spectator (1711–1714)
“Death is forever. Death is nothing. But to save a life, that’s everything.”
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Breaks
Andre Norton book The Time Traders
Source: The Time Traders (1958), p. 198
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
Remarks Recorded for the Opening of a USIA Transmitter at Greenville, North Carolina (8 February 1963) Audio at JFK Library (01:29 - 01:40) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKWHA-161-010.aspx · Text of speech at The American Presidency Project http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=9551 <br class="br">1963 <br class="br">Variant: A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.
“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
"War Shrines"
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)
“It is not death; but a bad life, which destroys the soul.”
Quintus Sextius Roman philosopher
Sentences of Sextus
“The death of one man is a just death, the death of two millions is a statistic.”
Erich Maria Remarque book The Black Obelisk
Aber das ist wohl so, weil ein einzelner immer der Tod ist — und zwei Millionen immer nur eine Statistik.
Der schwarze Obelisk (1956)
A variant of this quote "One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is just a statistic." has also been attributed to Joseph Stalin, but no source for this has been found. This version appeared in the English press not later than 1958. (Ремарк, Эрих Мария // Словарь современных цитат / составитель К. В. Душенко — Москва: изд-во «Эксмо», 2006)