Death

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins

The poetry of the earth is never dead

Mortality weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep

Museums are the cemeteries of the arts

An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return

There lay a young man, fast asleep--sleeping so soundly, so deeply, that he was far, far away from them both.

Centaur, fear for thy life!

In heaven all the interesting people are missing

If we think that heaven is our country, we should send our wealth thither rather than reatin it here, where on our sudden daparture it will be lost to us

You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh

In one of the stars, I shall be living. In one of them, I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing when you look at the sky at night

To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings

Grief is the price we pay for love

If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane, I’d walk right up to heaven and bring you home again

There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.