Afar Quote by Irving Layton

Death lies dormant in each of us and will bloom in time.

— Dean Koontz

When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. . . . How beautifully they go to their graves!…

— Henry David Thoreau

Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.

— Toni Morrison

Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or…

— Walt Whitman

Death is the opening of a more subtle life. In the flower, it sets free the perfume; in the chrysalis, the butterfly; in man,…

— Juliette Adam

One flower may slay the winter and meet death.

— Hilda Doolittle

Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.

— Arthur Golden

Our lives are like a candle in the wind.

— Carl Sandburg

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Certain living things prefer the dark, thriving in the shadows of tombstones and crypts, flowering admist the dead. Others tend toward the sun, blooming…

— Fiona Paul

“summer ends and autumn begins. The trees retract their sap in a hurry and the resulting bright colours must be a panic-stricken response to…

— Linda Gillard

Live like a candle which burns itself but gives light to others

— Melchor Lim