John Ruskin Quotes

So when I'm killed, don't wait for me, Walking the dim corridor; In Heaven or Hell, don't wait for me, Or you must wait for evermore. You'll find me buried, living-dead In these verses that you've read.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

The grave Is but the threshold of eternity.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us.

I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life.

Never the grave gives back what it has won!

Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all!

I shall not completely die.

Once you're dead, you're made for life.

When I'm killed, don't think of me Buried there in Cambrin Wood, Nor as in Zion think of me With the Intolerable Good. And there's one thing that I know well, I'm damned if I'll be damned to Hell!

Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its futility.

There's no jealousy in the grave.

In a more universal sense, we only get one thing. You know...a head stone if we're lucky; if not, green grass.

I think when you think of death as being part of the life cycle and recognize that death is an inevitability for our species because the world has to be renewed with each death, then the hope becomes when it is renewed it will be renewed by people on whom I have had some influence for good.

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

The first requisite for immortality is death.

Men die but an idea does not.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.

Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?