Deaths
- March 3 - Pierre Allix, French religious writer (born 1641)
- April 1 - Pierce Tempest, London print-seller (born 1653)
- June 9 - Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, mystic, author (born 1648)
- date unknown
- William Diaper, poet (born 1685)
- Ahmed ibn Nasir, Moroccan Sufi writer and teacher (born 1647)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)