Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied. ”

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. ”

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart. ”

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings. ”

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself. ”

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world. ”

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. ”

The whole idea of death is something that we tend to kind of really not deal with at all. ”

Faeries are associated with wild untamed nature, with art, and with death - so the folklore is rich with different stories to explore. ”

I'm less interested in death itself than in people whose lives are touched by it. ”