Quotes About Preparing To Die

#1. Instead of preparing to die, prepare to live in the midst of all the exaltations of the Gods

Brigham Young

#2. I will quote Cioran (who is not yet a classic but will become one): "While they were preparing the hemlock, Socrates was learning a tune on the flute. 'What good will it do you,' they asked, 'to know this tune before you die?

Italo Calvino

#3. I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction.

Ron Perlman

#4. It's a good idea to be in the physical presence of the enlightened teacher because it's not physical. You can hear the ocean from quite a ways away, but if you're standing right in front of it, it's easier.

Frederick Lenz

#5. The imperfections in life are what make life perfect.

Gary Leblanc

#6. I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love.

Omar Khayyam

#7. I must pour out my heart in the language which his Spirit gives me; and more than that, I must trust in the Spirit to speak the unutterable groanings of my spirit, when my lips cannot actually express all the emotions of my heart.

Charles Spurgeon

#8. If you like to live an abundant life, express joy and gratitude for what you have.

Debasish Mridha

#9. Subconsciously, I have started to say goodbye to the people and objects in my life as if preparing to die, even though I have no real plan. I just feel strongly, in my gut, that I'm not meant to stay here.

Deborah Feldman

#10. Happy days are here again,
The skies above are clear again:
Let us sing a song of cheer again,
Happy days are here again!

Jack Yellen

#11. Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#12. I hide my distress, just like
the blessed birds hide themselves
when they are preparing to die. Wine! Wine, roses, music and your
indifference to my sadness, my loved-one!

Omar Khayyam

#13. There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

P.D. James

#14. The Bible has much to say about the brevity of life and the necessity of preparing for eternity. I am convinced that only when a man is prepared to die is he also prepared to live.

Billy Graham

#15. My death could, in fact, save him.
If it can't, no matter. It's enough to die of spite. To punish Haymitch, who, of all the people in this rotting world, has turned Peeta and me into pieces in his Games. I trusted him. I put what was precious in Haymitch's hands. And he has betrayed me.

Suzanne Collins

#16. We imagine all these postapocalyptic, class-stratified, new-world-order techno-futures. But actually the real world, the world we live in, this is the dystopia.

Elan Mastai

#17. He bent his head down, running his nose along my cheek. My neck. Behind my ear, huffing his scent onto me like he hadn't done since he'd become the Alpha. I loved it. And him. But

T.J. Klune

#18. Perhaps everyone had their own way of preparing to die. Life got you ready.

Lorrie Moore

#19. Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.

Elizabeth Taylor

#20. Finding your entrepreneurial spirit and making it strong is more important than the idea or business you are developing.

Robert Kiyosaki