"We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting."
― Samuel Johnson
Topic(s):
Death
More From Samuel Johnson
- "Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives."
- "It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality."
- "So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other."
More In Death
- "Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear."― G. Gordon Liddy
- "It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape."― Voltaire
- "The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual – when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions – it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance."― Isaac Bashevis Singer