Samuel Butler Quotes About Death

Quotes about: Death

• Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.

  Samuel Butler

  Death, People, Dying

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Large Edition”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

• To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.

  Samuel Butler

  Death, Dying, Forget

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4372, Delphi Classics

• If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?

  Samuel Butler

  Death, Men, Dying

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4374, Delphi Classics

• I fall asleep in the full and certain hope That my slumber shall not be broken; And that, though I be all-forgetting, Yet shall I not be all-forgotten, But continue that life in the thoughts and deeds of those I have loved.

  Samuel Butler

  Death, Prayer, Fall

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited”, p.260, Courier Dover Publications

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