„And that dismal cry rose slowlyAnd sank slowly through the air,Full of spirit’s melancholyAnd eternity’s despair;And they heard the words it said,—”Pan is dead! great Pan is dead!Pan, Pan is dead!”“

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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„His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.“
— James Joyce
„i was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead.“
— Charles Bukowski
„Oh, God,” Magnus said. “They’re dead. They’re all dead.“
— Cassandra Clare
„Greek tragedy met her death in a different way from all the older sister arts: she died tragically by her own hand, after irresolvable conflicts, while the others died happy and peaceful at an advanced age. If a painless death, leaving behind beautiful progeny, is the sign of a happy natural state, then the endings of the other arts show us the example of just such a happy natural state: they sink slowly, and with their dying eyes they behold their fairer offspring, who lift up their heads in bold impatience. The death of Greek tragedy, on the other hand, left a great void whose effects were felt profoundly, far and wide; as once Greek sailors in Tiberius' time heard the distressing cry 'the god Pan is dead' issuing from a lonely island, now, throughout the Hellenic world, this cry resounded like an agonized lament: 'Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!“
— Friedrich Nietzsche