John Ruskin Quotes About Death
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One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
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Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.
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Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still. We show it with black feathers and black horses; we show it with black dresses and black heraldries; we show it with costly obelisks and sculptures of sorrow, which spoil half of our beautiful cathedrals. We show it with frightful gratings and vaults, and lids of dismal stone, in the midst of the quiet grass; and last, and not least, we show it by permitting ourselves to tell any number of falsehoods we think amiable or credible in the epitaph.
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To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.
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