Earth Quote by Thomas Wolfe

“To lose the earth you know for greater knowing; to lose the life you have for greater life; to leave the friends you loved…

— Thomas Wolfe

“[Death is] to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends…

— Wiley Cash

I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)

— John Newton

“When I lose the reasons to live, I shall die.”

— Alija Ali Izetbegovic

I will not die, it's the world that will end." paraphrase of unknown philosopher

— Ayn Rand

“You want to know the meaning of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?”

— Khalil Gibran

''If I die trying to make the world a better place than that is more than enough for me.''

— Jeremy Limn

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To…

— Oscar Wilde

“I shall live here in the rains, There in winter, Elsewhere in summer," muses the fool, Not aware of the nearness of death.”

— Gautama Buddha

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To…

— Oscar Wilde

“Where is it.. where is it I have read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“It is the knowledge that I'm going to die that creates the focus that I bring to being alive; the urgency of accomplishment; the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson