Death seemed to lose its terrors and to borrow a grace and dignity in sublime keeping with the life that was ebbing away.
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open...
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times.
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.
It is childish to eat primarily or only to please your tongue.
Maybe we're just falling stars, we once danced in the same skyline looking down at the world. And we've fallen like all others, from near and far, we've gathered together, but separated by time and sp...
Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.
The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.
