"If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction." ― Jean de la Bruyere Topic(s): Death More From Jean de la Bruyere "It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues." "They that have lived a single day have lived an age." "Love and friendship exclude each other." More In Death "Belief is the death of intelligence."― Robert Anton Wilson "That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life."― Amelia Barr "I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different."― T. S. Eliot