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  • To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

    The Rambler no. 78 (15 Dec. 1750)
  • Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.

    Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Complete Collection Deluxe Unabridged (annotated): [All 18 Works - Novels -Short Stories–Letters –Unfinished Works - Scraps]]”, p.145, BookBaby
  • In everything was the spirit of children's play - not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.

    SINCLAIR LEWIS (1940). “BERTHEL MERRIDAY”
  • Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.

    Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 6, 2012.
  • There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

  • The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

  • Many a life has been injured by the constant expectation of death. It is life we have to do with, not death. The best preparation for the night is to work diligently while the day lasts. The best preparation for death is life.

    Life   Work   Night  
    George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.9045, e-artnow
  • It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.

    Margot Asquith (1933). “More Memories”
  • There is this persistent theme in all of these notions that death is made more easy, whatever that means, if you've learned the territory before you get there. And you know, in the Mahayana Buddhist situation it even becomes as extreme as saying; 'life is essentially a preparation for death, a studying of the maps of a learning of the skills a packing of your picnic basket so that when you get out there and demons are sniffing you up one side and down the other you don't bungle your mantras'.

    Buddhist   Mean   Skills  
  • Death is the real inspiring genius or Musagetes of philosophy, and for this reason Socrates defined philosophy as thanatou mélétè (preparation for death; Plato, Phaedo, 81a). Indeed, without death there would hardly have been any philosophizing.

    Plato   Philosophy   Real  
    Luce Irigaray (2002). “Between East and West: From Singularity to Community”, p.27, Columbia University Press
  • Every funeral may justly be considered as a summons to prepare for that state into which it shows us that we must some time enter; and the summons is more loud and piercing as the event of which it warns us is at less distance. To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; but to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

  • Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

    "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.
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