You couldn’t put off the inevitable. Because sooner or later, you reached the place where the inevitable just went and waited.
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CAESAR: Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English dramatist and poet
Julius Caesar, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 34ff (2.2.34-39) (1599)
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The initial phrase has seemingly morphed in the retelling, though still being cited to Shakespeare: "A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once." This is the form most often seen, but is not Shakespeare.
In A Farewell to Arms (1929), Hemingway gives another paraphrase: "The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one," obliquely attributed to Shakespeare, This, too, sometimes gets modified to make it scan better, e.g., "A coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave dies only once." He goes on to write, "The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he’s intelligent. He simply doesn’t mention them."
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
“Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” #6 (1878)
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CHAPLAIN: War is like love, it always finds a way.
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, director, dramaturgist
Mother Courage and Her Children, sc. 6 (1939)
Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency, but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
