Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

George Carlin

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Henry Van Dyke

I don't have any fear of death. I do, however, have an inordinate fear of becoming dependent on other people. To me, that's the severest test, not death.

Huston Smith

The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.

Jean de la Bruyere

My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.

Jean Racine

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

Jean Racine

Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.

Jerry Seinfeld

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.

Jon Stewart

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.

Karen Armstrong

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.

Katherine Mansfield

The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.

Karl Pilkington

I feel like I don't watch that many shows with death.

Lena Dunham

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

Lewis Mumford

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

Larry Wall

Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.

Mahavira

Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.

Michael Haneke

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.

Mattie Stepanek

What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!

Rita Dove

The death of my own son has made me more sensitive. It's made me more compassionate.

Rick Warren