Yongle Emperor - Death

Famous quotes containing the word death:

“hung up like a pig on exhibit,
the delicate wrists,
the beard drooling blood and vinegar;
hooked to your own weight,
jolting toward death under your nameplate.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)

“Life is grown sweeter and lonelier,
And death is no evil.”
—Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)