Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“And there is no make-believe about heaven, future bliss, and compensation, to alleviate the bitter majesty, but only utter darkness, the void of unful-fillment,…

— Joseph Campbell

“Gracious souls wish to retire from the hurry and bustle of this world, that they may sweetly enjoy God and themselves; and, if there…

— Matthew Henry

“He who mocks the infant's faith Shall be mock'd in age and death. He who shall teach the child to doubt The rotting grave…

— William Blake

“So I shall practice sorrow in my love, stand in thin sun from old windows and grieve: inevitability of the grave, monotony of death,…

— Grace Butcher

“Little drops of water, Little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean And the pleasant land. So the little moments, Humble though they be,…

— Julia A.F. Carney

Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

— Ambrose Bierce

“If ever you have had a romantic, uncalculating friendship, - a boundless worship and belief in some hero of your soul, - if ever…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“In how many families do you hear the legend that all the goodness and graces of the living are nothing to the peculiar charms…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Child, child, love while you can The voice and the eyes and the soul of a man; Never fear though it break your heart-…

— Sara Teasdale

“But the more familiar one becomes with any religious system, while yet the conscience and will are unawakened and obedience has not begun, the…

— George MacDonald

“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