Rosie Thomas Quotes

Things don't matter, people do

I've grieved enough for his life cut short and for mine for running on for so long with so little in it. It's weakness now, but I suppose I am crying out of a general sense of loss. Maybe I am mourning for the human condition.

The dead do not harm us, only the alive.

Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.

I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.

The dead were just the dead, neither awful nor remarkable. History separated out these individuals and preserved their names where others were obilterated for ever.

Death preserves an ideal.

The dead and not-yet dead, we are company all together.

They had lived and known glory, and then they were ddead. She was alive and they were not, and nothing but a heartbeat separated her from them

Learning is important. It is a way to make a life better for yourself and your family.

I can only strive for what is important

I need them and they need me to need them

The future offers everything. Reach out and take whatever you want.