Alternatives Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Death was Patrick Henry's second choice.

— Wavy Gravy

The day Henry made a choice... that some men are just too interesting to die.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

“Death was heavier than Henry expected.”

— Eliza Maxwell

“[Henry] felt himself bound as much in honour as in affection to Miss Morland, and believing that heart to be his own which he…

— Jane Austen

“...death does leave a daunting array of practical tasks: all those possessions that you were forced to leave behind had to be sorted and…

— Rosamund Lupton

“Henry knew better than to want freedom. The only life worth living was the unfree life, the life Schwartz had taught him, the life…

— Chad Harbach

“In Paris and London he had seen nothing to make a return to life worth while; in Washington he saw plenty of reasons for…

— Henry Adams

How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“This was how the world persisted. The heaviness of despair - how could it exist in the midst of mascara, zippers, brunches ? It…

— Bridget Asher

“The Revolution had many of these men, proportioned to the epoch. In this old man one was conscious of a man put to the…

— Victor Hugo

What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change?

— David Malouf

“Death," he had said on another occasion, "seems to be merely a bad habit, which nature is at present powerless to overcome.”

— Vladimir Nabokov