Euripides
Playwright
"Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve."
Reprieve quotes
Reprieve
5 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Victor Hugo
Novelist, Poet
"We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve."
Simone de Beauvoir
Philosopher, Writer
"Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death."
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