Affection Quote by Charles Dickens

“The tomb in the daytime, and when wreathed with fresh flowers, had looked grim and gruesome enough; but now some days afterwards, when the…

— Bram Stoker

How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!

— Joseph Addison

“Behold,' said the Voice, 'earthly beauty. It is nothing but seeming, for to the uninstructed eye the world appears fruitful and sweet, yet in…

— Maria McCann

I believe when I am in the mood that all nature is full of people whom we cannot see, and that some of these…

— William Butler Yeats

Let my body be delivered to the earth without attention to the place where it lies; nothing should be associated with my dusty remains.…

— Nikolai Gogol

Life is grand, and so are its environments of Past and Future. Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful if man's…

— Henry David Thoreau

We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit…

— John Donne

Nature doth thus kindly heal every wound. By the mediation of a thousand little mosses and fungi, the most unsightly objects become radiant of…

— Henry David Thoreau

A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if the houses…

— Marcel Proust

The larvae! The scent of young blood entices and draws them closer. There's no need to venture into antiquity to evoke the shades of…

— Jean Lorrain

Dear, beauteous death, the jewel of the just! Shining nowhere but in the dark; What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust, Could man outlook…

— Henry Vaughan

“Nature has painted beauty across the earth; may human hearts forever reflect its grace.”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya