"Nothing but great antiquity can make graveyards..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
Nothing but great antiquity can make graveyards interesting to me. I have no friends there.
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“We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.”
“The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those monkeys which cling by their tails - aye, whose tails contract about the limbs, even the dead limbs, of the forest, and they hang suspended beyond the hunter's reach long after they are dead. It is of no use to argue with such men. They have not an apprehensive intellect, but merely, as it were a prehensile tail.”
“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.”
More on Death
“The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.”
“He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life.”
“We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.”