Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual – when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions – it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. – Isaac Bashevis Singer

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world. – Edgar Allan Poe