Avra

“He thought the fear of death was perhaps the root of all art, perhaps also of all things of the mind. We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, as transitory and will soon disappear. When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something that lasts longer than we do.”
― Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund

“In a world where you can be anything, be kind.”
― Anonymous, The 1001 Arabian Nights

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
― John Keats

“We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.”
― Sophocles, Antigone