More From Edward Young
- "The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss."
- "One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, ‘War’s glorious art’, and gives immortal fame."
- "Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die."
More In Death
- "If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction."― Jean de la Bruyere
- "A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."― Aldous Huxley
- "The Supreme Court of the United States… has validated the Nazi method of execution in… concentration camps, starving them to death."― Jack Kevorkian