"A useless life is an early death."

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"You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Death, Legacy, Truth, Future, Inspirational

"Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did so, the unmistakable tokens of death showed themselves. The body relaxed, and instantly grew stiff. The struggle was over. The insignificant little creature now knew death. As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder. Just as life had been strange a few minutes before, so death was now as strange."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Death, Life, Nature, Wonder

"We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Death, Idols, Want

"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Death, Shadow

"Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life."

Thomas Merton, American Author

Death, Life, Eyes, Light

"An evil life is a kind of death."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Death, Life, Evil

"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Death, End, Statesman

"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Artist

Death, Life, Day, Sleep

"Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony."

Elizabeth Fishel, American Writer

Death, Harmony

"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

Death, Immortality

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"Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath."

Contentment

"What you inherit from your fathermust first be earned before it's yours."

Responsibility

"Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome."

Philosophy

"For in music there is no material to be deducted."

Art

"We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavour to efface them."

Psychology

"The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool."

Work

"Only air and light and the love of friends! Let no man lose heart who still has these."

Friendship

"A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness."

Philosophy

"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."

Growth

"All that is transitory is but a metaphor."

Philosophy