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Death Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

49 Death quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A ship aground battered by waves, like a man feeling melancholy in mortal life, appears in Emerson’s thoughts on death. He suggests that loss and hardship can later reveal hidden rewards, while friendship feels like an immortal soul. He also wonders why grief often teaches us nothing.

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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

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I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.

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Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

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Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.

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

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Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

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The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.

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What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived

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“Some of your hurts you have cured, and the sharpest you've even survived. But what torments of grief you've endured from evils…

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

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Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you…

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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

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It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifferenceto…

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If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways,…

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I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the…

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The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

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“Vast spaces of nature; the Atlantic Ocean, the South Sea; vast intervals of time, years, centuries, are of no account. This which…

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So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the…

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Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure,…

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Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out ofthe window,…

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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness…

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There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs…

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“Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads…

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[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out…

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The moment the doctrine of the immortality is separately taught, man is already fallen. In the flowing of love, in the adoration…

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The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide…

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“A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and…

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

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There are some men above grief and some men below it.

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Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.

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“What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well half an hour?”

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

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“I grieve that grief can teach me nothing.”

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It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight…

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If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God,…

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Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From…

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In the death of my son, now more than two years ago, I seem to have lost a beautiful estate,--no more. I…

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Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides.

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

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If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee…

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…

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