The Fault in our Stars

"You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect."

~John Green (said by character Peter Van Houten)

Julius Caesar

Cassius: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves/ That we are underlings."

~Shakespeare 

In Cold Blood

Then, starting home, he walked toward the trees, and under them, leaving behind him the big sky, the whisper of wind voices in the wind-bent wheat. 

~Truman Capote

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

The boasts of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r,

And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,

Await alike the inevitable hour:

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

~Thomas Gray