He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Topics: Dealing With Death Quotes

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

Then followed that beautiful season... Summer.... Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical...

Then followed that beautiful season... Summer.... Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical...

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find...

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find...

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers...

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers...

Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....

Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....

The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness...

The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness...

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room...

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room...

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and...

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and...

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach...

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach...

For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as...

For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as...

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Evil is only good perverted.

Evil is only good perverted.

Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just

Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the...

Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the...

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal...

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal...

It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of...

It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of...