All RALPH WALDO EMERSON Quotes about “Death”

“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.”
“Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.”
“Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out ofthe window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise.”
“If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and pass and turn again.”
“Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.”
“Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine”
“He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread”
“In the death of my son, now more than two years ago, I seem to have lost a beautiful estate,--no more. I cannot get it nearer to me.”
“Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.”

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