To the philosopher,
by J. K. Rowling
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
Related topics: Wisdom
Sayings by J. K. Rowling
Death is just life's next big adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
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To the well-organized mind,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
Philosopher Sayings
To a philosopher all news,
as it is called, is gossip,
and they who edit and read it
are old women over their tea.
- Henry David Thoreau
Death Sayings
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
- Chief Seattle
I Cheat Death by Enjoying Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
- The Buddha
Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson
Dying is a wild night and a new road.
- Emily Dickinson
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
- John Wayne
It's not what you take when
you leave this world behind you.
It's what you leave behind you when you go.
- Randy Travis
Without zest, what is life?
Just waiting for death?
- Osho
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
- C. S. Lewis
Do not mourn the dead, but comfort the living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle.
It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
- Rabindranath Tagore
For those of true faith, death is not a time to mourn,
but a time to celebrate returning to the Creator.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Momma always said dyin' was a part of life.
I sure wish it wasn't.
- the movie Forrest Gump
O Captain. My Captain. our fearful trip is done.
- Walt Whitman
Death is the final opening to Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep,
so a life well spent brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
People living deeply have no fear of death.
- Anais Nin
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
Life and death are one thread,
the same line viewed from different sides.
- Lao Tzu
Does who we are begin with breath,
depend on form, or end with death?
- Kirtana
Do the thing you fear,
and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.
- Thomas Mann
My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
- Robert E. Lee
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
Death is not extinguishing the light;
it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Suspicion and jealousy are the death knell of any relationship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
When you break up, your whole identity is
shattered. It's like death.
- Dennis Quaid
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
- George Santayana
I postpone death by living, by suffering,
by error, by risking, by giving, by loving.
- Anais Nin
When someone you love dies,
you don't lose them all at once.
You lose them in pieces over time
- the movie Simon Birch
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
Too many people are thinking of security
instead of opportunity.
They seem more afraid of life than death.
- James F. Bymes
Shrinking away from death
is something unhealthy and abnormal -
which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
- Carl Jung
Death is not the greatest loss in life.
The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
- Norman Cousins
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valor and religion.
For want of valor is want of religious faith.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Every parting gives a foretaste of death,
every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Let us all be brave enough
to die the death of a martyr,
but let no one lust for martyrdom.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child.
Things never get back to the way they were.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Death is nothing else but going home to God,
the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.
- Mother Teresa
Death comes to all,
but great achievements build a monument
which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
And you, Sonja, you look more beautiful
standing here than you do in person.
- the movie Love and Death (1975)
Next Sayings
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
- David Starr Jordan
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
Choose to be as a young child -
fully awake, eager for the next experience.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen
A man can do only what he can do.
But if he does that each day he can sleep at night
and do it again the next day.
- Albert Schweitzer
I congratulate myself warmly for each accomplishment,
then ask, "What's next?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
- Jonas Salk
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
- Helen Keller
We are never afraid of what is happening in this instant -
It is what MIGHT happen next that frightens us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are times, sir, when men of good conscience
cannot blindly follow orders.
- Captain Picard, STAR TREK: The Next Generation
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