Ultimately, death must triumph, for by birth it has already become our lot and it plays with its prey only for a while before swallowing it up. However, we continue our life with great interest and much solicitude as long as possible - just as we blow out a soap-bubble as long and as large as possible, although with the perfect certainty that it will burst.

There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.

There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity.

The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general and when only its most significant features are emphasised, is really a tragedy; but gone throug…

'I just believe that life is more than rehearsing how to die.'

Could we, with human reason, process the finality of death, we would be very different souls, giving more than we take, forgiving easily, and listening with al…

Ni cheffir eithr o'i weithred Aberth Crist I borthi cred. Bywyd ni chaiff, ni beiwn, Pab nac ymherawdr heb hwn, Na brenin naelwin hoywlyw, Dien ei bwyll, na dy…