Yongle Emperor - Death

Famous quotes containing the word death:

“You don’t send a man to his death because you want a hero.”
—Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981)

“I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)

“Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)