death

"The past alone is truly real: the present is but a painful, struggling birth into the immutable being of what is no longer. Only the dead exist fully. The lives of the living are fragmentary, doubtful…"

"I shall be as secret as the grave."

"Not in matter but in thought, not in possessions nor even in attainments but in ideals, is to be found the seed of immortality. Not through material acquisition but in generous diffusion of ideas and …"

"Oblivion cures the old wounds."

"Plato finds it necessary to separate, for example, "horseness" from "horse" and say that horseness is real and fixed and true and unmoving, while the horse is a mere, unimportant, transitory phenomeno…"

"First she studied her husband's flower arrangement. He had chosen the blossom of a single white wild rose and put a single pearl of water on the green leaf, and set it on red stones. Autumn is coming,…"

"...so unpopular, if he became a funeral director people would stop dying"

"Don't buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They're bastards, and they do it on purpose."

"According to data compiled by the UK Guardian, Chavez's first decade in office saw Venezuelan GDP more than double and both infant mortality and unemployment almost halved. Then there is a remarkable …"

"Simplicity is worth buying if we do not have to pay too great a loss of precision for it."

"My aim was to save the Irish language from death - it was dying then as fast as ever it could died - and that ambition did not lend itself to English writing except for propaganda purposes ..."

"here is something graver than to be immortal, and that is to be mortal."

"Funerals in México are also about drowning sorrow with liquor. The coffee is spiked with tequila"

"Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave."

"No evil is honorable; but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil."

"Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother."

"John C. Calhoun's last speech had a bitter attack on Mr. Jefferson for his amendment to the Ordinance of '87 prohibiting slavery in the Northwest Territory. Calhoun was in a dying condition – was too …"

"Hemingway's Gravesite"

"It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries."

"He came to a halt in a hollow and got his breath back. He felt himself freed of a great burden by getting out of sight of other people. The previous days and nights had been eventful, and he had lost …"