"Who does not sometimes envy the good..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world, and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?
More by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.”
“Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.”
“When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.”
More on Death
“There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.”
“I wish to go on living even after my death.”
“He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train.”
More on Mortality
“You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.”
“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.”
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.”