When death comes it is never our tenderness that
we repent from, but our severity.
-- George Eliot
1819-1880,
British Novelist
And what the dead had no speech for, when
living, they can tell you, being dead: the
communication of the dead is tongued with fire
beyond the language of the living.
-- T. S. Eliot
1888-1965,
American-born British Poet, Critic
Death is the last enemy: once we've got past
that I think everything will be alright.
-- Alice Thomas
Ellis
1932-, British
Author
Let death be daily before your eyes, and you
will never entertain any abject thought, nor too
eagerly covet anything.
-- Epictetus
50-120, Stoic
Philosopher
