Alexandra Feodorovna Alix of Hesse/death

Famous quotes containing the words hesse and/or death:

    What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.
    —Hermann Hesse (1877–1962)

    When Death to either shall come—
    I pray it be first to me.
    Robert Bridges (1844–1930)