“And in the wreck of noble lives
Something immortal still survives.”

“The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.”

“Life is wrecked by living.”

“The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? — Because one did survive the wreck.”

“Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live.”

“As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.”

“Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.”

“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”

“The artificial noble shrinks into a dwarf before the noble of nature; and in the few instances (for there are some in all countries) in whom nature, as by a miracle, has survived in aristocracy, those men despise it.”

“and when they pulled her from the wreck, you know, she still had on her shades”