Emperor Taizong of Tang Quotes

Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it.

If one does not forget one's previous experience, one can learn for the future from the past.

History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them.

My dad was a man of great wisdom in his short time here.

Every fight is a learning experience, whether it's a win or a loss.

Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.

You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.

Experience is the best teacher. But in our day and time, what we need is wisdom, because wisdom overcomes experience, because experience is wisdom, but there's a level of wisdom that overcomes the experience, and that's the experience that's already lived by others. I'm not trying to repeat the histories. I already learned from what they did.

THE HEART'S DEAD ARE NEVER BURIED.

A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths to wisdom, this is the cruelest and longest. Are you one who must follow such a way? This even I cannot know. If you are, take heart nonetheless. Those who reach the end do more than gain wisdom. As rough wool becomes cloth, and crude clay a vessel, so do they change and fashion wisdom for others, and what they give back is greater than what they won.

When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect of the dead person is removed from the flux of the everyday, which, of course, is where we miss him most. The quarantine around death makes it feel unlucky and wrong--a freakish incursion--and the dead, thus quarantined, come to seem more dead than they already are.... Borrowing from the dead is a way of keeping them engaged in life's daily transactions--in other words, alive.

When the friends we love the best Lie in their churchyard bed, We must not cry too bitterly Over the happy dead.

Peter Jones's is a vital public service. He reminds us that while we shouldn't live in the past, we are wiser and stronger when we live with it.

A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.

I was wiser at 30 than I am now. My judgment was better at 12. If you look out the windshield of a Hyundai or a Bentley, you see the same road.

We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.

I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.

We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.

A loss, but who still mourns the breath of one woman, or laments one wife? Though my heart never can forget, how, for one look, she gave up her life.

It's a taboo subject. How the dead are betrayed by the living. We who are living--we who have survived--understand that our guilt is what links us to the dead. At all times we can hear them calling to us, a growing incredulity in their voices, You will not forget me -- will you? How can you forget me? I have no one but you.

Implores the passing tribute of a sigh.

She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones.

They say that there are three kinds of people in the world. There are people who never learn one way or another anything; there are people who learn from their own mistakes, eventually and with great pain; and then there are the really wise people who learn from other people's mistakes and spare themselves the suffering.

A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while you were still alive.

When someone close to you dies, the line is shifted really drastically about what is meaningful and what isn't.