“Yes, as my swift days near their goal 'Tis all that I implore In life and death a chainless soul With courage to endure.”— Emily Brontë, "The Old Stoic", st. 3, 1846Share
“I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas.”— Emily BrontëShare
“The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me And I cannot, cannot go.”— Emily BrontëShare
“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
“Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die; steal from the world, and not a stone tell where I lie.”— Alexander PopeShare
“Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy.”— Thomas Bailey AldrichShare
“Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one.”— Theodore RooseveltShare
“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