Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Death

• It is not length of life, but depth of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.191, Harvard University Press

• Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Success, 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Death, Sight, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.272, Harvard University Press

• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Death, Summer, July

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.17, Harvard University Press

• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Death, Wings, Hymns

  'Brahma' (1867)

• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Death, Men, Funeral

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.272, Harvard University Press

• Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Death

  'Good-bye' (1847)

• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Death, Thinking, Red

  'Brahma' (1867)

• He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Death, Bread

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.197, Graphic Arts Books

• Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Death, Fear

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan Sutton Smith, Ralph H. Orth (1990). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.306, University of Missouri Press

• I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Death, Men, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.34, University of Georgia Press

• Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Death, Long

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.97, Penguin

• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Death, Son

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.228, Harvard University Press

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