Quotes from authors passed in 1837
There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.
Giacomo Leopardi
Death is the most blessed dream.
Georg Buchner
No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.
Giacomo Leopardi
One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.
Georg Buchner
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
Ludwig Borne
Jules Verne 
Arthur Seyss-Inquart 
Billy Ray Cyrus 
Dick Francis 
Olympia Brown 
Thomas Nagel 
Frank Gifford 
Michelle Branch