Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Humanity and Immortality consist neither in reason, nor in love; not in the body, nor in the animation of the heart of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“...the water which has been refused to the cry of the weary and dying, is unholy, though it had been blessed by… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“For, truly, the man who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.” — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Color is, in brief terms, the type of love. Hence it is especially connected with the blossoming of the earth; and again,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“In the purest landscape, the human subject is the immortality of the soul by the faithfulness of love.” — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is not the weariness of mortality, but the strength of divinity, which we have to recognize in all mighty things; and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
In mortals there is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“You may trust to the truth of my sympathy; but you must remember that I am engaged in the investigation of enormous religious and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
