Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. Oscar Wilde View this quote
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That’s what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease. John Green
John Green
Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies. Persius
Persius
There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. Oscar Wilde
But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight. Voltaire
Voltaire
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher
It is easy to go down into hell; night and day, the gates of dark death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one’s steps to the upper air – there’s the rub, the task. Virgil
Virgil
When each moment becomes an expectation life is deprived of fulfillment, and death is dreaded for it seems that here expectation must come to an end. Alan Watts
Alan Watts
I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
