A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against itGilbert Keith ChestertondeathresistanceoppositioncritismCopy this quote
““I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.
“An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return
“Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances