Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.
“Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.”
“She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.”
“I only appear to be dead.”
“The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.”
“Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.”
“Dead men have no victory.”
“There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.”
“I suppose sequels are inevitable for a writer of a certain age.”
“When great leaves fall, the winter is at hand.”