„I am near the end of the wine, sweet lords and lovely ladies, but out there the big wine is being poured – thin, slow, grey. Never more shall I taste the oncoming of this particular darkness. But I shall not be sorry to go. I am not seduced by the dainty lusts, clothed in cold green and clean linen, of an English spring. If you plunge into that dark there you will emerge at length into a raging sun and all the fabled islands of my East. And that is what I shall be doing tonight, off like a bird. I see you have your pennies ready, ladies. Twitch not, hop not about nor writhe so: I shall not be long now.“

— Anthony Burgess

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„You see, if I could believe that I shall see and touch him again, I shall not have lost him. And if I have not lost him, I shall never have had a son. Because I am I through bereavement and because of it. I do not know what I was nor what I shall be. But because of death, I know that I am. And that is all the immortality of which intellect is capable and flesh should desire. Anything else is for peasants, clods, who could never have loved a son well enough to have lost him.“
— William Faulkner
„I shall not go out at allgiven that my love is hereshall always stay attached to these hearts.I shall never bid farewell to this place!But I have to send this bodyanyhow from here.“
— Suman Pokhrel
„I shouldn’t care what you suffered. I care nothing for your sufferings. Why shouldn’t you suffer? I do! Will you forget me — will you be happy when I am in the earth? Will you say, twenty years hence, “That’s the grave of Catherine Earnshaw. I loved her long ago, and was wretched to lose her; but it is past. I’ve loved many others since — my children are dearer to me than she was, and, at death, I shall not rejoice that I am going to her, I shall be sorry that I must leave them!”“
— Emily Brontë
„Wine comes in at the mouthAnd love comes in at the eye;That's all we shall know for truthBefore we grow old and die.I lift the glass to my mouth,I look at you, and I sigh.“
— W.B. Yeats
„The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!“
— Jane Austen
„If you do not intend to help us," she said, "then leave this house. Dawn is coming.""I am not a vampire." Magnus said. "I shall not disappear with the light""You will if I kill you before the sun comes up.“
— Cassandra Clare