Like all of us in this storm between birth and death I can wreak no great changes on the world only small changes for the better I hope in the lives of those I love.
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
To the well-organized mind death is but the next great adventure.
Death is really a great blessing for humanity without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
Death is the only pure beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires the birth and death of kings or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
When death the great reconciler has come it is never our tenderness that we repent of but our severity.
Land and sea weakness and decline are great separators but death is the great divorcer for ever.
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached even death.
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions both good and bad become transparent no longer limited by outward appearences.
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death because they are greater than anything he finds in himself and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
I look forward to death with great anticipation to meeting God face to face.
If a man can bridge the gap between life and death if he can live on after he's dead then maybe he was a great man.
Know one knows whether death which people fear to be the greatest evil may not be the greatest good.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
You hear a lot about God these days: God the beneficent God the all-great God the Almighty God the most powerful God the giver of life God the creator of death. I mean we're hearing about God all the time so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God God is arbitrary.
Death comes to all but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
I have never killed a man but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook but John is a really great one. Literally I never cook. The whole time we were dating I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again.