Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Dying

• 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

• [W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Father, Ocean, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1871). “Society and Solitude and Other Essays”, p.142

• Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,--the Better, the Best. The first and worse races are dead.The second and imperfect races are dying out, or remain for the maturing of the higher. In the latest race, in man, every generosity, every new perception, the love and praise he extorts from his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Fate, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.360, Penguin

• I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  America, Dying, United States

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.240, Harvard University Press

• A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Men, Dying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1871). “Society and Solitude and Other Essays”, p.19

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