And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Walt Whitman
When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.
John Greenleaf Whittier
From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.
I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember... →
Elie Wiesel
Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Biography lends to death a new terror.
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
Thornton Wilder