Preparation For Death Quotes

• Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

  Tecumseh

  Song, Native American, Great Day

  "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

  Plato

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• There is this persistent theme in all of these notions that death is made more easy, whatever that means, if you've learned the territory before you get there. And you know, in the Mahayana Buddhist situation it even becomes as extreme as saying; 'life is essentially a preparation for death, a studying of the maps of a learning of the skills a packing of your picnic basket so that when you get out there and demons are sniffing you up one side and down the other you don't bungle your mantras'.

  Terence McKenna

  Buddhist, Mean, Skills

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• It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.

  Margot Asquith

  Death, Preparation, Dying

  Margot Asquith (1933). “More Memories”

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• Every funeral may justly be considered as a summons to prepare for that state into which it shows us that we must some time enter; and the summons is more loud and piercing as the event of which it warns us is at less distance. To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; but to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Distance, Sleep, Funeral

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• Many a life has been injured by the constant expectation of death. It is life we have to do with, not death. The best preparation for the night is to work diligently while the day lasts. The best preparation for death is life.

  George MacDonald

  Life, Work, Night

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.9045, e-artnow

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• Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.

  Jane Austen

  Giving, Preparation, Giving Time

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Complete Collection Deluxe Unabridged (annotated): [All 18 Works - Novels -Short Stories–Letters –Unfinished Works - Scraps]]”, p.145, BookBaby

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• To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

  Samuel Johnson

  Death, Sleep, Preparation

  The Rambler no. 78 (15 Dec. 1750)

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• Death is the real inspiring genius or Musagetes of philosophy, and for this reason Socrates defined philosophy as thanatou mélétè (preparation for death; Plato, Phaedo, 81a). Indeed, without death there would hardly have been any philosophizing.

  Luce Irigaray

  Plato, Philosophy, Real

  Luce Irigaray (2002). “Between East and West: From Singularity to Community”, p.27, Columbia University Press

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• There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

  Stanislav Grof

  Spiritual, Practice, Differences

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• Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Philosophical, Preparation, Intellectual

  Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 6, 2012.

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• In everything was the spirit of children's play - not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Children, Play, Preparation

  SINCLAIR LEWIS (1940). “BERTHEL MERRIDAY”

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