“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.”– Emily Dickinson Related Quotes “A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.”– Samuel Taylor Coleridge “Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.”– Thomas Browne “Death is a fearful thing.”– William Shakespeare