emo quotes about death

Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times. ~John Burroughs



Let the dead bury their dead. ~Matthew 8:22



A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones. ~Ellen Key, quoted by Sprading in Liberty and the Great Libertarians



When there's a single thief, it's robbery. When there are a thousand thieves, it's taxation. ~Vanya Cohen



Sometimes the best way to hold onto something is to let it go. ~Author Unknown



If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. ~Dorothy Canfield Fisher If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. ~Dorothy Canfield Fisher



And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. ~Luke 2:13-14



The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it. ~Frank M. Garafola



We look for some reward of our endeavours and are disappointed; not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "Pulvis et umbra," 1888



The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. ~Russell Green



I like long walks, especially when they're taken by people who annoy me. ~Fred Allen



No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does. ~Christopher Morley



What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. ~Jeff Candido and Jason Hoff, advertising slogan written for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, 2002



I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape. ~Desmond Morris, The Naked Ape



Some historians hold that history is just one damned thing after another. ~Arnold Toynbee



Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb



When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under. ~Rosellen Brown



Love is nothing in tennis, but in life it's everything. ~Author Unknown



Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. ~Samuel Johnson, "Recalling the Advice of a College Tutor," Boswell, Life of Johnson, 1791



Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. ~Margaret Fuller