Quotes About Death Ralph Waldo Emerson

#1. SLEEP IS NOT, DEATH IS NOT; WHO SEEM TO DIE LIVE. HOUSE YOU WERE BORN IN, FRIENDS OF YOUR SPRING-TIME, OLD MAN AND YOUNG MAID, DAY'S TOIL AND ITS GUERDON, THEY ARE ALL VANISHING, FLEEING TO FABLES, CANNOT BE MOORED. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ransom Riggs

#2. One suffers in silence so long as one has the strength and when that strength fails one speaks without measuring one's words much.

Charlotte Bronte

#3. Vision is not fiction; fiction could be a pure imagination; vision is to zoom into the future as if it were closer.

Pearl Zhu

#4. The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. Following Jesus is a verb.

Mark Batterson

#6. I just try to be as versatile as life is and try and express that in the fight.

Alex Caceres

#7. Slowly the wasters and despoilers are impoverishing our land, our nature, and our beauty, so that there will not be one beach, one hill, one lane, one meadow, one forest free from the debris of man and the stigma of his improvidence.

Marya Mannes

#8. Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. I'm someone who laughs a lot and cries a lot.

Anne-Marie Duff

#11. T may not be the life you imagined, but it's your life. You came here for a reason. Is it time for you to go and begin again?

Doug Cooper

#12. Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. Nelson Mandela is a leader Barack Obama should try to emulate ...
He could start by spending 27 years in prison.

Don Imus

#15. He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. I feel like we can do something really cool to this world. And I fear - at twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five - we might forget.

Marina Keegan

#19. We've been living on a high, they've been talking on the low. But it's cool, know you heard it all before.

Drake

#20. Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#21. We should never become despondent because the weather is bad, nor should we turn triumphalist because the sun shines.

Thabo Mbeki

#22. It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifferenceto death.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#23. He had gone to the higher Sierras ... [about Ralph Waldo Emerson's death]

John Muir

#24. After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#25. I am afraid to die, though,' I whispered to myself. These turned out to be my last words. They were not very impressive words, but it was too late to change them.

Haruki Murakami

#26. I'm such an independent person, I always want to do everything myself.

Stacie Orrico

#27. In the death of my son, now more than two years ago, I seem to have lost a beautiful estate,
no more. I cannot get it nearer to me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#28. Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out ofthe window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#29. Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.

Anna Lindh

#30. I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#31. In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#32. The next time you find yourself on the receiving end of a conversation assault, take a moment to have a little self-compassion. Remember that other introverts share your slow-talking tendencies, your hatred of small talk, and your disdain for the phone.

Michaela Chung

#33. Far or forgot to me is near;
Shadow and sunlight are the same;
The vanished gods to me appear;
And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out;
When me they fly, I am the wings;
I am the doubter and the doubt,
And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#34. Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson