Final Chapters Quotes

“His final words, as he waited for the axe to fall, were, “Strike, man, strike!” Raleigh’s head was embalmed and given to his wife. The rest of him was laid to rest at St. Margaret’s Church in Westminster. Lady Raleigh kept the head in a velvet bag until her death in 1647, at which time it was placed in Raleigh’s tomb with the body.”
― Jim Bernhard, Final Chapters: How Famous Authors Died

“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”
― Jim Bernhard, Final Chapters: How Famous Authors Died

“To fear death, gentlemen, is to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. As far as anyone knows, death may be the greatest of all blessings, yet people fear it as if they knew for certain that it is the greatest of evils.”
― Jim Bernhard, Final Chapters: How Famous Authors Died

“Marcus Aurelius: “Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.”
― Jim Bernhard, Final Chapters: How Famous Authors Died