Death lies on her like an untimely frost.
My dad was a pool-equipment salesman. He died when I was 12. Heart attack on a golf course.
You die in the middle of your life.
And too soon Marred are those so early Made.
Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them.
Only the good die young.
Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
Papa died when he was 77.
In his brief 21 years on this earth, Michael Smith Jr. touched countless lives.
It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.
Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.
You're never too young to die.
That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence
