“Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.”– William Butler Yeats Related Quotes “Marriage is the death of hope.”– Woody Allen “Death is the great hope of all life the desire to expend itself to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.”– Bryant H. McGill “From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever That dead men rise up never That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.”– Algernon Charles Swinburne