Art Quote by Marcus Aurelius

“In the midst of life we are in death” — how the present moment is all we can call our own for works of…

— George Eliot

“Discourse is not life; its time is not your time; in it, you will not be reconciled to death; you may have killed God…

— Michel Foucault

He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend: Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills to have no…

— Henry Taylor

You have been used to take notice of the sayings of dying men — this is mine: That a life spent in the service…

— Matthew Henry

When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are…

— George Eliot

“Might there come a time When we stand over a grave And mourn ourselves? Mourn the past, a previous life? Shall we weep for…

— Samantha Young

When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Abandoned by a God in whom many of us believed, we lay prostrate and dazed in our demi-tomb. From time to time, one of…

— Guy Sajer

Every man at time of Death, Would fain set forth some saying that may live After his death and better humankind; For death gives…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.

— Nan Fairbrother

“A man's life will not come again, once it has slipped through his teeth. And no power on earth can bring it back. This…

— Paul Pope

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.

— William Shakespeare