3 December 2020 Alfred Russel Wallace In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
3 December 2020 Quintus Ennius Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
3 December 2020 Jeanne Moreau Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It’s the outcome of life.
3 December 2020 Robert Green Ingersoll When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death – that is heroism.
3 December 2020 Pope John Paul II Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
3 December 2020 Paul Kurtz The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.
3 December 2020 Charles de Montesquieu Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
3 December 2020 Edvard Munch From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
3 December 2020 Ivan Turgenev Nature creates while destroying, and doesn’t care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn’t extinguished, as long as death doesn’t lose its rights.
3 December 2020 Edgar Allan Poe The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
3 December 2020 Norman Cousins The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives – the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
3 December 2020 Buffalo Bill My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
3 December 2020 Jean Cocteau Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
3 December 2020 Jennifer Lopez There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly.
3 December 2020 Florence Nightingale The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
3 December 2020 Alfred Adler 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.
3 December 2020 Omar N. Bradley Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
3 December 2020 Ken Kesey Loved. You can’t use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
3 December 2020 Simon Cowell The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.
3 December 2020 Helen Keller Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
3 December 2020 Eliot Spitzer Yes, people pull the trigger – but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.
3 December 2020 Edna Ferber Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
