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Quotes About Wisdom

When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies?
~ Greta Garbo
I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next.
~ Haruki Murakami
Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners.
~ Tom Robbins
The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law.
~ Tom Shadyac
If you live right, death is a joke to you as far as fear is concerned.
~ Will Rogers
Eyes spiritualised by death can judge, I cannot, but I am not content.
~ William Butler Yeats
O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave, The wise expect, the sorrowful invite, And all the good embrace, who know the grave A short dark passage to eternal light.
~ William Davenant
I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me—they're cramming for their final exam.
~ George Carlin
I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true.
~ Maya Angelou
There may be little or much beyond the grave But the strong are saying nothing until they see.
~ Robert Frost
Strange - is it not? - that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.
~ Omar Khayyam
He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
They say even death can't cure an idiot.-Ririn
~ Tite Kubo
No man should go to Valhalla with brothel rash.
~ Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools
Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.
~ Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Grandfather : Death is nothing to be afraid of.Renee : It's not death I'm afraid of.Grandfather: What is it, then?
~ Yvonne Wood, Dead Beautiful
For, truly, the man who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
~ Unknown
I wish I could recommend the experience of not being killed to everyone.
~ Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing
I won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the libraryWith bookworms in my coffin.
~ J. Patrick Lewis
Never trust a man who teaches about death but yet had no real experience at all about it.
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first.
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
The thing about oracles is that they talk back.
~ Unknown
The Death's Field is the mirror which allows us the knowledge of the world we living in.
~ Sorin Cerin