Charles Caleb Colton Quote

Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.


Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan (ed. 1823)


Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.

Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.

Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.

Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.