“Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.”

— Katherine Mansfield

Journal entry (29 January 1922), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927)
Context: Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order. This is what life has taught me.

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Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet

Como sólo me preparo para lo que debiera sucederme, no me hallo preparado para lo que me sucede. Nunca.
Voces (1943)

“I am astonished about those people who are ordered to prepare their provisions, then the start of the journey is announced, however they remain unmindful in their vain discussions and fruitless deeds.”

Hasan al-Basri (642–728) Iranian Sufi Saint

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“One should be prepared to receive ninety-nine percent of an enemy's attack and stare death right in the face in order to illumine the Path.”

Morihei Ueshiba (1883–1969) founder of aikido

The Art of Peace (1992)

“I have always been prepared – anytime, any day. I have a title to accompany the King, but I have long prepared myself for government service. If Samdech wants to call me anytime, even if I am not in the country, I have the ability to return.”

Norodom Ranariddh (1944) Cambodian politician

[Vong Sokheng, http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/former-pm-rules-out-return, Former PM rules out return, 20 October 2010, 29 August 2015, Phnom Penh Post]

“Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Source: My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930), Chapter 4 (Sandhurst), p. 72.

“I think Donald just criticized me for preparing for this debate. And, yes, I did. And you know what else I prepared for? I prepared to be president. And I think that's a good thing.”

Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)

“We should always be prepared so as never to err to believe that what I see as white is black, if the hierarchic Church defines it thus.”

Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556) Catholic Saint, founder of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits)

No. 365.
Spiritual Exercises (1548)

“The charge is prepared; the lawyers are met;
The judges all ranged (a terrible show!)
I go, undismay'd.—For death is a debt,
A debt on demand.—So take what I owe.”

John Gay (1685–1732) English poet and playwright

Macheath, Act III, sc. xi, air 57
The Beggar's Opera (1728)

“I abhor unjust war. I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or individuals. I abhor violence and bloodshed. I believe that war should never be resorted to when, or so long as, it is honorably possible to avoid it. I respect all men and women who from high motives and with sanity and self-respect do all they can to avert war. I advocate preparation for war in order to avert war; and I should never advocate war unless it were the only alternative to dishonor.”

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States

Source: 1910s, Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography (1913), Ch. VII : The War of American and the Unready

“So I go back and forth forever
All my thoughts they come in pairs
Oh I will, I won't, I doubt, I don't,
I'm not surprised but I never feel quite prepared”

Conor Oberst (1980) American musician

I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)

“Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.”

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