Quotes About Preparation

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

None of us is ever ready,' he (Ned) said. 'For knighthood?' 'For death.

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

Let us live like those who expect to die, and then we shall find that we feared death only because we were unacquainted with it.

Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him.

Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.

Always be ready; always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared.

I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.

They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

Death, it seems," Garp wrote, "does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic.

Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors.

I don't think you ever gave isolation a real shot. It's the best preparation I know of for death.

If you have to plan for a future beyond the forecasting horizon, plan for surprise. That means, as Danzig advises, planning for adaptability and resilience.

La Biblia no hace ninguna promesa color rosa acerca de vivir en una primavera eterna. Lo que hace es señalar hacia la fe que nos ayuda a prepararnos para las estaciones de sequía. Vendrán duros inviernos, seguidos por veranos ardientes. No obstante, si las raíces de la fe adquieren la suficiente profundidad para llegar hasta donde se halla el Agua Viva, podremos sobrevivir a los tiempos de sequía y florecer en los tiempos de abundancia.

In order to be prepared to hope in what does not deceive, we must first lose hope in everything that deceives. —Georges Bernanos (in Reason for Being by Jacques Ellul)

the best way to prepare for suffering is to work on a strong, supportive life when you're healthy.

As men have to fight, women have to wait and plan. This is your time for waiting and planning, and you must be constant and discreet. Honesty matters so much less.

I find I must prepare for my death. I don't fear it. Ever since I lost my son I have been weary to my soul, and I think, when it finally comes, it will be a lying down to sleep without fear of dreams, without fear of waking. I am ready to lie down to sleep. I am tired.

saddle, brushes down my gown, hands me my hat

with onions and carrots drawn up like a retinue

He's coming for you, is all she says. This is how he always does it. He's coming for you, Kat, and I don't know how to save you. I'm packing Bibles and I'm burning papers, but they know you have been reading and writing, and they are changing the law ahead of me. I can't make sure you obey the law because they are changing it faster than we can obey.

So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the pith of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor