Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.

Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.

Death cometh soon or late;
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his read more

Death cometh soon or late;
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his gods?.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.

Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.

If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.

If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.

...the mind is conscious, but conscious of nothing - I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope read more

...the mind is conscious, but conscious of nothing - I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: so the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

Wings of angels, tears of saints
won't bring you back to me
(about her son's suicide)
(He will come back read more

Wings of angels, tears of saints
won't bring you back to me
(about her son's suicide)
(He will come back to her.. the soul is
deathless).

In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.

In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.