"In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing." ― Robert Green Ingersoll Topic(s): Death More From Robert Green Ingersoll "Happiness is not a reward – it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment – it is a result." "It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions." "Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers." More In Death "The earth is rocky and full of roots; it’s clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you’ll never see it again – it’s death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil."― Anne Lamott "Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love."― Dean Koontz "Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity – in short, of tyranny – and it is committed to making tyranny universal."― Adlai E. Stevenson