"How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset." ― George MacDonald Topic(s): Death More From George MacDonald "It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity." "When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over." "If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give." More In Death "We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death."― Angela Davis "It’s necessary to start most work alone. But I’m tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it’s borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate."― Jenny Holzer "Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free."― Jessamyn West