Death is the dropping of the flower that the
fruit may swell.
-- Henry Ward
Beecher
1813-1887,
American Preacher, Orator, Writer
Living is death; dying is life. We are not what
we appear to be. On this side of the grave we
are exiles, on that citizens; on this side
orphans, on that children;
-- Henry Ward
Beecher
1813-1887,
American Preacher, Orator, Writer
Loss and possession, Death and life are one.
There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.
-- Hilaire Belloc
1870-1953,
British Author
A
man's death makes everything certain about him.
Of course, secrets may die with him. And of
course, a hundred years later somebody looking
through some papers may discover a fact which
throws a totally different light on his life and
of which all the people who attended his funeral
were ignorant. Death changes the facts
qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does
not know more facts about a man because he is
dead. But what one already knows hardens and
becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities
to be clarified, we cannot hope for further
change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the
protagonists and we have to make up our minds.
-- John Berger
1926-, British
Actor, Critic
