Courage Quote by Roberto Bolaño

“The dead were just the dead, neither awful nor remarkable. History separated out these individuals and preserved their names where others were obilterated for…

— Rosie Thomas

“Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved. Noble, even. That ought to count for…

— Stephenie Meyer

“People naturally pay their respects to the dead. The person had, after all, just accomplished the personal, profound feat of dying.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Prate not to me of suicide, Faint heart in battle, not for pride I say Endure, but that such end denied Makes welcomer yet…

— Stevie Smith

“Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with…

— Ambrose Bierce

“Congratulations, ladies.” His smile faded, and his next words were like a dagger of ice down my spine. “You are now the property of…

— Lesley Livingston

“But, as always happens after death, his face had grown handsomer, more dignified—more distinguished, in short, than it had ever been in life.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“He wondered again at the easy, graceful manner in which the Roman lyricists accepted the fact of death, as if the nothingness they faced…

— John Williams

“With horror he perceived that, by uniting himself as he had with the dead, he had cut himself off from the living. Stripped of…

— Anonymous

“To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern taskmasters they…

— Charles Dickens

“There has never yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“My friend Patroclus, whom I loved, is dead. I loved him more than any other comrade. I loved him like my head, my life,…

— Homer