“In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.”
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“In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.”
“Life is like the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority”
“There is a remedy for everything - it is called death”
“Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.”
“Those we have held in our arms for a short while we hold in our hearts forever”
“Parents hold their children's hands for just a little while .. their hearts forever ”
“Love is timeless - death does not separate the lover from the beloved”
“Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us; footprints on the sands of time.”
“The truest end of life, is to know the life that never ends”
“Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.”
“Good-night! Good-night! as we so oft have said beneath this roof at midnight, in the days that are no more, and shall no more return. Thou has but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays to cover up the embers that still burn. ”
“Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of ”
“It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living”
“The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good”
“Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death”
“Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labour done”
“Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.”
“I feel monotony and death to be almost the same”
“To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death”
“Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death”