"Death is better than slavery."

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"Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Death, Guilt, Mercy, Emotion

"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Death, Children, Soldiers, Sons

"I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Death, Nothing

"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."

Buddha, Indian Leader

Death, People, Life, Road

"Death has a life which kills everybody's life."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Death, Life, Cycle, Reality

"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

Death, Cure

"If we really believe what we say we believe- if we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a "wandering to find home", why should we not look forward to the arrival. There are, aren't there, only three things we can do about death: to desire it, to fear it, or to ignore it. The third alternative, which is the one the modern world calls "healthy" is surely the most uneasy and precarious of all."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Death, Fear, Acceptance, Life

"Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died."

John Green, American Author

Death, Irony, Life, Humor

"Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life."

bell hooks, American Critic

Death, Life, Time

"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women."

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"When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died."

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"When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live."

God

"But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns."

Family

"The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also."

Nature

"If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year."

Slavery

"There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment."

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"Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt."

"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death."

"I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion."

"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."

"Death has a life which kills everybody's life."

"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."

"Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died."

"Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life."

"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."

Explore more quotes by Harriet Ann Jacobs

"When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women."

"When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died."

"When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live."

"But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns."

"The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also."

"If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year."

"The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition."

"Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities."

"The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear."

"There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment."