“Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.”— Horace, Odes (Carmina), I.4 (translation)Share
“What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?”— HoraceShare
“No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.”— SocratesShare
“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
“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
“All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.”— Leo TolstoyShare
