top of page
.png){kind=small}
"All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life."
Standard
Customized
More
"Many want to live long, and ignore pangs of eternity."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Life is but a breath. The end of life is the last breath of a man."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Never fear Death for you will feel aroused by his sleep. Never cheat death or he will slap you with a sentence of misery for the defeat."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The driver, a black silhouette upon his box, whipped up his bony horses. Icy silence in the coach. Marius, motionless, his body braced in the corner of the carriage, his head dropping down upon his breast, his arms hanging, his legs rigid, appeared to await nothing now but a coffin; Jean Valjean seemed made of shadow, and Javert of stone."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come."
Author Name
Personal Development
"One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too old."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When the heart accepts death first, words you can trust are feelings you can take."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Do not forget you will never live forever."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Silver's sweet and gold's our mother, but once you're dead they're worth less than that last shit you take as you lie dying."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity."
Hope
"Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?"
Wisdom
"Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things."
Courage
"A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities."
Humor
"In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers."
Life
"There is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men."
Philosophy
"Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope."
Faith
"Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life. A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds."
Life
"There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, and at the last one pause: - through infancy's unconscious spell, boyhood's thoughtless faith, adolescence' doubt (the common doom). and then scepticism, then disbelief, resting at last in manhood's pondering repose of If."
Philosophy
"The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating them, till they are left living with half a heart and half a lung."
Literature
bottom of page