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Death Of A Friend Quotes

This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad.

This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad.

William Shakespeare
Passion, Men, Death Of A Friend
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1819). “The Plays of Shakspeare”, p.184

There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.

Miguel de Cervantes
Men, Death Of A Friend, Sorrow
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, John Gibson Lockhart (1854). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.377

When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Death Of A Friend, Quality, Alive

CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was no more he was observed to be deeply moved. "What!" said one of his disciples, "you weep at the death of an enemy?" "Ah, 'tis true," replied the great Stoic; "but you should see me smile at the death of a friend.".

Ambrose Bierce
Evil, Death Of A Friend, Enemy
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.31, University of Georgia Press

After the second chapter of Days of Obligation, which is about the death of a friend of mine from AIDS, was published in Harper's, I got this rather angry letter from a gay-and-lesbian group that was organizing a protest against the magazine. It was the same old problem: political groups have almost no sense of irony.

Richard Rodriguez
Gay, Political, Death Of A Friend
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