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A life well used procures a happy death.
Oct 1, 2025
Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his physicians cannot cure.
Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.
The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
Do not seek death. Death will find you.
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.
Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.
Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.
Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.
Sendak is in search of what he calls a "yummy death". William Blake set the standard, jumping up from his death bed at the last minute to start singing. "A happy death," says Sendak. "It can be done." He lifts his eyebrows to two peaks. "If you're William Blake and totally crazy.
Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity.
Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
People living deeply have no fear of death.
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life
Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life. Rodger Rosenblatt As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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