“I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.”
Source: Revolution
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“Stronger than iron
crueler than death
sweeter than springtime
it lives beyond breath”
Juliet Marillier (1948) New Zealand fiction writer
“He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.”
Oscar Wilde book The Canterville Ghost
Source: The Canterville Ghost
Amy Grant (1960) American musician
"That's What Love Is For", co-written with Michael Omartian and Mark Mueller
Song lyrics, Heart in Motion (1991)
“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.”
Thomas Mann book The Magic Mountain
Variant: Love stands opposed to death. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6; variant translation: It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. Only love, not reason, gives sweet thoughts. And from love and sweetness alone can form come: form and civilization.
Context: Love stands opposed to death. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. Only love, not reason, gives kind thoughts.
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: Night World, No. 1
“Nothing is stronger than habit.”
Nil adsuetudine maius.
Ovid book Ars amatoria
Variant translation: Nothing is more powerful than custom.
Book II, line 345
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)

“There is nothing stronger than gentleness.”
John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach
Source: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court