# Quote — Hans Christian Andersen, Fairy Tales

> Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.

- Author: [Hans Christian Andersen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hans-christian-andersen.md)
- Book: [Fairy Tales](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hans-christian-andersen/fairy-tales.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/hans-christian-andersen/fairy-tales/death-walks-faster

## More from this book

> To travel is to live.

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> "I have gone through the most terrible affair that could possibly happen; only imagine, my shadow has gone mad; I suppose such a poor, shallow brain, could not bear much; he fancies that he has become a real man, and that I am his shadow." "How very terrible,” cried the princess; "is he locked up?" "Oh yes, certainly; for I fear he will never recover." "Poor shadow!" said the princess; "it is very unfortunate for him; it would really be a good deed to free him from his frail existence; and, indeed, when I think how often people take the part of the lower class against the higher, in these days, it would be policy to put him out of the way quietly."

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> "I have now learnt to despise you," he said. "You refused an honest prince; you did not appreciate the rose and the nightingale; but you did not mind kissing a swineherd for his toys; you have no one but yourself to blame!"

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