Age Quote by Georges Brassens

“In the glare, the great and terrible light of this happening, God seems to signal that the story of the rest of us need…

— Herman Wouk

“It is like the wrath of God, minus God: every action is weighed in some unfathomable balance, and at any time, the most trivial…

— Stefan Hertmans

Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise a peace…

— Michelangelo

“The prediction that in the twenty-first century humankind is likely to aim for immortality, bliss and divinity may anger, alienate or frighten any number…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“If something terrible happened – such as war, plague or drought – people consoled themselves that ‘We all play a role in some great…

— Yuval Noah Harari

O cease! must hate and death return, Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy.…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will…

— Alfred de Vigny

Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating it with…

— Robert A. Heinlein

The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads At going out, we think, and enter straight Another golden chamber of the…

— Philip James Bailey

The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor . . . I do not deplore the…

— Jack Johnson

We call for an end to the killing of one another, and we denounce the violence and fanaticism that threatens life. The victory of…

— Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople