This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Tom Stoppard, fully Sir Tom Stoppard, born Tomáš Straüssler
Death is not anything... death is not... It's the absence of presence, nothing more... the endless time of never coming back... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes no sound.
Like a child falling asleep over his toys, man loosens his grasp on earthly possessions only when death overtakes him.
Death | Man | Possessions | Wisdom | Child |
The bed of death brings every human being to his pure individuality, to the intense contemplation of that deepest and most solemn of all relations - the relation between the creature and his Creator.
Contemplation | Death | Individuality | Wisdom | Contemplation |
Peter Weiss, fully Peter Ulrich Weiss
Every death even the cruelest death drowns in the total indifference of Nature. Nature herself would watch unmoved if we destroyed the entire human race.
Death | Human race | Indifference | Nature | Race | Wisdom |
The meaning of death is not the annihilation of the spirit, but its separation from the body, and that the resurrection and day of assembly do not mean a return to a new existence after annihilation, but the bestowal of a new form or frame to the spirit.
One who longs for death is miserable, but more miserable is he who fears it.
Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman
What indeed is finally beautiful except death and love?