"And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead." Nicolas-Sebastien Chamfort, French writer, d. 1794 ~//~ "Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar. Please keep going Courtney, for Frances for her life will be so much happier without me. I LOVE YOU. I LOVE YOU." Kurt Cobain, musician, d. April 8, 1994 ~//~ "Goodbye, everybody!" Hart Crane, poet, d. April 27, 1932 ~//~ "To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?" George Eastman, inventor, d. March 14, 1932 ~//~
"Goodbye, my friend, goodbye
My love, you are in my heart.
It was preordained we should part
And be reunited by and by.
Goodbye: no handshake to endure.
Let's have no sadness -- furrowed brow.
There's nothing new in dying now
Though living is no newer."
Sergei Esenin, Russian poet, d. Dec. 28, 1925 ~//~ "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." Charlotte Perkins Gilman, writer, d. August 17, 1935 ~//~
"All fled--all done, so lift me on the pyre;
The feast is over, and the lamps expire."
Robert E. Howard, writer, d. June 11, 1936 ~//~ "They tried to get me - I got them first!" Vachel Lindsay, poet, d. December 4, 1931 ~//~ "I must end it. There's no hope left. I'll be at peace. No one had anything to do with this. My decision totally." Freddie Prinze, comedian, d. January 29, 1977 ~//~ "Dear World, I am leaving you because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool - good luck." George Sanders, British actor, d. April 25, 1972 ~//~
When I am dead, and over me bright April
Shakes out her rain drenched hair,
Tho you should lean above me broken hearted,
I shall not care.
For I shall have peace.
As leafey trees are peaceful
When rain bends down the bough.
And I shall be more silent and cold hearted
Than you are now.
Sara Teasdale, poet, d. 1933 ~//~ "The future is just old age and illness and pain.... I must have peace and this is the only way." James Whale, film director, d. May 29, 1957