If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted read more

If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.

I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.

I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.

There is a dignity in dying that doctors should not dare to deny.

There is a dignity in dying that doctors should not dare to deny.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

In death a hero, as in life a friend!.

In death a hero, as in life a friend!.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?.

Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great Butcher
.. how much responsibility
does Aristotle his teacher have?

Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great Butcher
.. how much responsibility
does Aristotle his teacher have?

It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. read more

It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.