But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Deat….
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little ….
A man dies ... only a few circles in the water prove that he was ever there. And even they quickly disappear. And when they're gone, he's forgotten, ….
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks..
You don't know what is going to come to you in this world; you have to go on living and worrying. Those who die are pitying us; they are blessing us.….
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known..
The proper study of mankind is the science of design..
He would make a lovely corpse..
When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes ….
O, if the deeds of human creatures could be traced to their source, how beautiful would even death appear; for how much charity, mercy, and purified ….
The first step to eternal life is you have to die..
Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us, the language didn't seem too d….
This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests i….
And last of all comes death..
To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature..
You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. ….
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness..
Nothing puts life into men like a dying Savior..
Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's bei….
When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away..
The way you get through tragedy is to look at the good things in life..