
„I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.“
— Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist 1817 - 1862
My Last Will http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/My_Last_Will (1915-11-18)
— Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist 1817 - 1862
— Felicia Hemans, The Child's First Grief
The Child's First Grief (1828).
— Christopher Moore, livro Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Fonte: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
— Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising
al'Lan Mandragoran to Nynaeve al'Meara
(15 September 1992)
Fonte: The Shadow Rising
— Cassandra Clare, livro The Shadowhunter's Codex
Fonte: The Shadowhunter's Codex
— Richard Brautigan American novelist, poet, and short story writer 1935 - 1984
— Charles Stuart Calverley British poet 1831 - 1884
Disaster; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare:
Oh, ever thus, from childhood’s hour,
I ’ve seen my fondest hopes decay;
I never loved a tree or flower
But ’t was the first to fade away.
- Thomas Moore, The Fire Worshippers, p. 26.
— Edvard Munch Norwegian painter and printmaker 1863 - 1944
Quote in Sustainable Landscape Construction: A Guide to Green Building Outdoors (2007) by William Thompson and Kim Sorvig, p. 30
after 1930
— Mark Lemon British magazine editor 1809 - 1870
Oh would I were a Boy again, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
— Claude Monet French impressionist painter 1840 - 1926
his remark, shortly after the death of his second wife Alice in 1911; as quoted in: K.E. Sullivan Monet: Discovering Art, Brockhampton press, London (2004), p. 76
1900 - 1920
— Roger Ebert American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter 1942 - 2013
"Roger writes to readers" Chicago Sun Times (11 October 2006)
— Janet Evanovich, livro One for the Money
Fonte: One for the Money
— Isaac Watts English hymnwriter, theologian and logician 1674 - 1748
Song 13: "The Danger of Delay".
1710s, Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)
— Orson Scott Card, livro Lovelock
Lovelock (1994)
— Terry Pratchett English author 1948 - 2015
Final lines of his Richard Dimbleby lecture Shaking Hands With Death on euthanasia and assisted suicide, quoted in "Terry Pratchett: my case for a euthanasia tribunal" in The Guardian (2 February 2010) http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/feb/02/terry-pratchett-assisted-suicide-tribunal
General sources
Contexto: I dare say that quite a few people have contemplated death for reasons that much later seemed to them to be quite minor. If we are to live in a world where a socially acceptable "early death" can be allowed, it must be allowed as a result of careful consideration.
Let us consider me as a test case. As I have said, I would like to die peacefully with Thomas Tallis on my iPod before the disease takes me over and I hope that will not be for quite some time to come, because if I knew that I could die at any time I wanted, then suddenly every day would be as precious as a million pounds. If I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice.
— Tamora Pierce American writer of fantasy novels for children 1954
Fonte: Trickster's Queen
— Alfred, Lord Tennyson British poet laureate 1809 - 1892
— Emily Dickinson, livro The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Fonte: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
— Alfred, Lord Tennyson British poet laureate 1809 - 1892
" Oenone http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/britlit/tenn/oenone.html", st. 3 (1832)