“I pray — for word is out And prayer comes round again — That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man.”— William Butler Yeats, A Full Moon in March, 1935; "A Prayer For Old Age"Share
“An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing.”— William Butler YeatsShare
“Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end.”— Albert CamusShare
“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”— C.S. LewisShare
“I can state from my own experience that what people fear in death is the loneliness of having to leave this world forever.”— Kaneko FumikoShare
“God grant that by my persevering labours I may bring a little stone to the frail and ill-assured edifice of our knowledge of those deep mysteries of Life and Death where all our…”— Louis PasteurShare
“Ye are better than all the ballads that ever were sung or said; for ye are living poems, and all the rest are dead.”— Henry Wadsworth LongfellowShare
“There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our…”— Nelson MandelaShare