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[15]: 95 To judge by what I now endure, the hand of death grasps me sharply." [11]: 140 [15]: 95 — Salvator Rosa, Italian artist and poet (15 March 1673), when asked how he was "Death is the great key that opens the palace of Eternity." [77] — John Milton, English poet and intellectual (8 November 1674) Death of the Viscount of Turenne.
In honor of Reader’s Digest’s 100th anniversary, we dug through our archives to find some of the best quotes from famous people over the past 100 years. The dates in parentheses are when they ...
No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun – for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. [61] Relax – This won't hurt." [11] [61] — Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (20 February 2005), in his suicide note, written four days before his ...
Last Words: Words from the Past. Kdp Print Us. ISBN 9781792725937. Bisbort, Alan (2001). Famous Last Words: Apt Observations, Pleas, Curses, Benedictions, Sour Notes, Bon Mots, and Insights from People on the Brink of Departure. Pomegranate. ISBN 9780764917387. Guthke, Karl S. (1992). Last Words: Variations on a Theme in Cultural History ...
But living past 100 isn't the rarity it once was. ... died in 1997 after 122 years and 164 days. ... oldest living Holocaust survivor and briefly the oldest living man before his death in 2017 at ...
"When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one." [21] [23] — Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American humanist and writer (17 August 1935), in her suicide note
Turning 100 years old today, Jimmy Carter is not only the oldest president in United States history, but the first to every become a centenarian. He still lives in Plains, Georgia, in a modest ...
Walk down Reader's Digest memory lane with these quotes from famous people throughout the decades. The post 100 of the Best Quotes from Famous People appeared first on Reader's Digest.