When death the great reconciler has come it is never our tenderness that we repent of but our severity.
Land and sea weakness and decline are great separators but death is the great divorcer for ever.
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached even death.
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions both good and bad become transparent no longer limited by outward appearences.
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death because they are greater than anything he finds in himself and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
I look forward to death with great anticipation to meeting God face to face.
If a man can bridge the gap between life and death if he can live on after he's dead then maybe he was a great man.
Know one knows whether death which people fear to be the greatest evil may not be the greatest good.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
You hear a lot about God these days: God the beneficent God the all-great God the Almighty God the most powerful God the giver of life God the creator of death. I mean we're hearing about God all the time so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God God is arbitrary.