Awful Quote by Petrarch

Our thoughts are boundless, though our frames are frail, Our souls immortal, though our limbs decay; Though darken'd in this poor life by a…

— James Gates Percival

At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls **** All whom war,…

— John Donne

In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become…

— William Shakespeare

“It is an age lurching along the lip of a dark precipice, peeking fearfully into chaos's empty eyes, enrapt, like a giddy rat trying…

— Glen Cook

“I think if Eternity held torment, its form would not be fiery rack, nor its nature, despair. I think that on a certain day…

— Charlotte Brontë

And death shall have no dominion. Under the windings of the sea They lying long shall not die windily; Twisting on racks when sinews…

— Dylan Thomas

This is written in the elder days as the Earth rides close to the rim of eternity, edging nearer to the dying Sun, into…

— Clifford D. Simak

“We should not take lightly the horrible thoughts this place of death and destruction are meant to unveil. We are warned about the misery…

— John Bunyan

“Their souls—or maybe just our memories of them—belong to that place which even the dead can only dream of, the miraculous place from which…

— Michael Haley

Thought, stumbling, plods Past fallen temples, vanished gods, Altars unincensed, fanes undecked, Eternal systems flown or wrecked; Through trackless centuries that grant To the…

— Alfred Austin

A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night.

— John Milton