Ancient cemetery of Staleno in Genoa

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well. ~Plato. Ancient cemetery of Staleno in Genoa
Ancient cemetery of Staleno in Genoa
On the average the life of man consists of 960 months, or 29000 days. Graves vividly remind about the transparent nature of life. Title, money, position – they lose any sense. Cemetery Staleno, Genoa is popular not only because of the graves of many celebrities, but also because of surprising architecture and many sculptural and architectural monuments, which have the historical value of the highest category. Located on the area more than one square kilometer, Staleno is one of the largest cemeteries in Europe.
To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one’s own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Expeditions of an Untimely Man.
Ancient cemetery of Staleno in Genoa

All say, “How hard it is that we have to die” – a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. ~Mark Twain

I’m not afraid of death. It’s the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life. ~Jean Giraudoux, Amphitryon, 1929

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. ~Maurice Maeterlinck

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. ~Samuel Butler

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever. ~Elisabeth Kobler-Ross

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. ~Norman Cousins

Meanwhile, the death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping. ~The Epic of Gilgamesh

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? ~Kahlil Gibran, from “The Prophet”
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