Dies Quotes - Page 25

• ...a pie so delicate, so luscious, that I hope to be propped up on my dying bed and fed a generous portion. Then I think that I should refuse outright to die, for life would be too good to relinquish.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Thinking, Delicate Life, Pie

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1996). “Cross Creek Cookery”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• Beauty crowds me till I die. Beauty, mercy have on me! Yet if I expire to-day Let it be in sight of thee!

  Emily Dickinson

  Beauty, Sight, Crowds

  Emily Dickinson (1955). “Poems: including variant readings critically compared with all known manuscripts”, Belknap Press

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• You'll find it-when you try to die- The Easier to let go- For recollecting such as went- You could not spare-you know.

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Letting Go, Trying

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.877, Delphi Classics

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• I can't die but once.

  Harriet Tubman

  I Can

  "The Underground Railroad". Book by Charles L. Blockson, 1987.

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• When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: "I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I didn't like." I am so proud of that I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved. And when you come to my grave you will find me sitting there, proudly reading it.

  Will Rogers

  Reading, Men, Waiting

  "The Will Rogers Book". Book by Paula McSpadden Love, 1972.

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• Most men eddy about Here and there-eat and drink, Chatter and love and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurled in the dust, Striving blindly, achieving Nothing; and then they die- Perish;-and no one asks Who or what they have been.

  Matthew Arnold

  Hate, Men, Dust

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.442, Delphi Classics

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• Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city's jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make, and cannot mar! The will to neither strive nor cry, The power to feel what others give! Calm, calm me more! nor let me die Before I have begun to live.

  Matthew Arnold

  Peace, Men, Cities

  'Lines written in Kensington Gardens' (1852)

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• Now they got such a high inheritance tax on 'em that you won't catch these old rich boys dying promiscuously like they did. This bill makes patriots out of everybody. You sure do die for your country if you die from now on.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Boys, Dying

  Will Rogers (1955). “Sanity is where you find it: an affectionate history of the United States in the 20's and 30's”

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• They have passed the big inheritance tax, and that gets you when you are gone. You used to could die and be able to beat taxes, but not now. The undertaker don't go over your body as carefully as the assessor does your accumilated assets, and he gets his before the undertaker. They have it on these big fortunes now where they pay as high as 60 to 70 percent of what they leave. That's mighty expensive dying when it runs into money like that, and you won't see 'em dropping off as casually as they have been.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Over You, Dying

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• I don't want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there's no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won't die young.

  Golda Meir

  Funny, Giving Up, Humorous

  Golda Meir, Israel Shenker, Mary Shenker (1970). “As good as Golda: the warmth and wisdom of Israel's Prime Minister”

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• He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one by intent.

  Ruth Park

  Risk, May, Cliffs

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• I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Pages, Revolution, Resumes

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• Beauty crowds me till I die.

  Emily Dickinson

  Beauty, Crowds

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1934, Delphi Classics

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• With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!

  Bayard Taylor

  Children, Spring, Dark

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.408

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• Enlightenment is a lot like dying. You might wonder why there aren't more enlightened people. It is because they are afraid to die.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Dying, Enlightenment

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• Enlightenment means that you're living fully, and it means that you die fully. And then you go beyond life and death completely, everything, nothing, all, and beyond all.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Life And Death, Enlightenment

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• I remember reading about the astounding number of people in this country who die within three years of retiring, which proves to me that if you lose the sense that you are producing or contributing in some way, you literally lose the will to live, and that if you do have a reason to hang on, you will.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Country, Reading

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.361, Simon and Schuster

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• The Buddha said, 'Nothing can survive without food.' This is a very simple and very deep truth. Love and hate are both living phenomena. If we do not nourish our love, it will die and may turn into hate. If we want love to last, we have to nurture it and give it food every day. Hate is the same; if we don't feed it, it cannot survive.

  Nhat Hanh

  Motivational, Hate, Simple

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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 and afterward return again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Death, Sight, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.272, Harvard University Press

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• Memories... images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.

  William Wordsworth

  Death, Memories, Headstone

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.615

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• Paradise is not the place you go when you die. Paradise is when your mind is in a perfect state.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perfect, Mind, Places You Go

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• You cannot be born and you cannot die because you don't even exist ... in the sense that you think of existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Thinking, Born

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• It's always said that when one is a soldier who dies in battle, you go to a very high world. There's a great and good karma for the soldier who dies in battle because it's an extended selfless giving.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Selfless Giving

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• Christ didn't have to. Buddha didn't have to. They came back to teach. They came back to die, to suffer, when it was no longer necessary for them to do so.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Suffering

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• The ecology of the valley was complex beyond our understanding, and it began to die as we went on manipulating it in ever more frantic ways. As it went dead and empty of the old life it became a place where no one wanted to live. In our right minds we want to seek out places that reek of complexity. Our drive to industrialize soured and undercut the intimacies that drew most people to country life in the first place.

  William Kittredge

  Country, Land, People

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