Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it. -Walt Whitman

 

Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.


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This quote is just one of 41 total Walt Whitman quotes in our collection. Walt Whitman is known for saying 'Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.' as well as some of the following quotes.

I exist as I am, that is enough.

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263

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

Walt Whitman
262
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things. -Walt Whitman
258

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Walt Whitman
252

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.

Walt Whitman
250
Be curious, not judgmental. -Walt Whitman
250

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

Walt Whitman
242