Dan Fogelberg Quotes

Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal.

Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.

I knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin.

If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

As you are now so once were we.

I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.

It is not desirable that we should live as in the constant atmosphere and presence of death; that would unfit us for life; but it is well for us, now and then, to talk with death as friend talketh with friend, and to bathe in the strange seas, and to anticipate the experiences of that land to which it will lead us. These forethinkings are meant, not to make us discontented with life, but to bring us back with more strength, and a nobler purpose in living.

We all die at the end, but does that nullify everything? Would most people rather say, "I wish I hadn't been born?" Once you're born you'll have to die, now is that funny or sad?

If a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.

Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.

Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse.

Taking life seriously requires taking death seriously.

I'm always aware of mortality.

Life, the permission to know death.

Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.

We 've wholly forgotten how to die. But be sure you do die nevertheless. Do your work, and finish it. If you know how to begin, you will know when to end.

It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.

Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set.

...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

Well, that’s that, then. We’re all going to die. Charming.

So the first thing: become aware of death. Think about it, look at it, contemplate it. Do not be afraid, do not escape the fact. It is there and you cannot escape it! It has come into existence with you.

The one true freedom in life is to come to terms with death, and as early as possible, for death is an event that embraces all our lives. And the only way to have a good death is to lead a good life. The more we do God's will, the less unfinished business we leave behind when we die.

Death lies dormant in each of us and will bloom in time.