Born Quote by John Galsworthy

“The strong and strange thing—that which moves on its way as do birth and death, and the rising and setting of the sun—had begun…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“It is said that men condemned to death are subject to sudden moments of elation; as if, like moths in the fire, their destruction…

— John le Carré

“We have gone far in our public places to push death aside, to consign it to a dusty corner, but in the wilderness it…

— Rick Yancey

“This treachery of life is too cunning to be abandoned but the anguish of being in it demands negligence.”

— Riyana Baboo

“For, in those centuries, when numbers of children died in the cradle and half the women in childbirth, when epidemics ravaged adult life, when…

— Maurice Druon

“The dead and the unborn are as much members of society as the living. To dishonour the dead is to reject the relation on…

— On Rousseau Roger Scruton

“Such killings were part of the natural order of things, an inevitable consequence of belonging to a royal household.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“in better company, they found among all those hideous carcasses two skeletons, one of which held the other in its embrace. One of these…

— Victor Hugo

Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. -…

— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

“this responsibility for the death of my (m)other, is a significance so irreducible that it is from it that the meaning of death may…

— Erin Moure

“His principle can be quite simply stated: he refuses to die while he is still alive. He seeks to remind himself, by every electric…

— G.K. Chesterton

“It could be said that one of the marks of a truly responsible life is a voluntary death”

— Donald Richie