Yongle Emperor - Death

Famous quotes containing the word death:

“He should be as vigorous as a sugar maple, with sap enough to maintain his own verdure,... and not like a vine, which being cut in the spring bears no fruit, but bleeds to death in the endeavor to heal its wounds.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.”
—Thomas Browne (1605–1682)

“The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.”
—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)