Death & Dying
- Because I could not stop for Death—
He kindly stopped for me—
The Carriage held but just Ourselves—
And Immortality....--Emily Dickinson
- Birth and death are like ships: why do we rejoice over a ship setting out on a journey when we know not the she may encounter on the seas? We should rejoice when the ship returns safely to the port.--Midrash Tanhuma
- Death belongs to life as birth does. The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down.--Sir Rabindranath "Tagore" Thakur
- Death comes to all. But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.--George Fabricius
- Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.--Norman Cousins
- Death is the gate of life.--St. Bernard of Clairvaux
- Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.--Charles C. Colton
- Death is the opening of a more subtle life. In the flower, it sets free the perfume; in the chrysalis, the butterfly; in man, the soul.--Juliette Adam
- Death teaches us to live; it gives us a boundary to map our living within. Death's hammer breaks through the mirror separating us from light.--David Meltzer
- Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead, do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.--Anna Cummins
- Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing? What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you? If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work at it.--Epictetus (The Life That Calls Me)
- Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.--Natalie Babbitt (Tuck Everlasting)
- Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.--Lisa Alther
- The eternity of the spirit does not begin after death ... but is, like God, always present.--Moses Hess
- Every now and then I think about my own death, and I think about my own funeral. ... Every now and then I ask myself, 'What is it that I want said?' I'd like somebody to mention that day, that Martin Luther King Jr., tried to give his life serving others. I'd like for somebody to say that day, that Martin Luther King Jr., tried to love somebody.--Martin Luther King Jr. ("The Drum Major Instinct" (Sermon))
- For every person that has lived there will come at last, a spring she will never see. Glory then, in the springs that are yours.--Pamela Brown
- I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was two things I had a right to, liberty and death. If I could not have one, I would have the other, for no man should take me alive.--Harriet Tubman
- I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.--Ella Wheeler Wilcox ("The Journey")
- I'm not going to die,
I'm going home
Like a shooting star.--Sojourner Truth
- It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.--Samuel Johnson
- I've never written a quote I feel would be suitable for my gravestone. Wouldn't it be ironic if it were this one? Oh, and could you pull a few weeds while you're here?--Ryan Lilly (Write Like No One is Reading)
- Life and death are of grave importance —
Impermanent and swift.
Wake up, all of you.
Do not waste your life.--Kazuaki Tanahashi (Zen Chants)
- Life is eternal and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.--Rositer Raymone
- Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.--Stephen Vincent Benet
- May your glass be ever full.
May the roof over your head be always strong.
And may you be in heaven half an hour
Before the devil knows you're dead.--Irish blessing
- The most important thing to do before you die is live.--Simon Sinek
- My deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive and not to sweat the small things.--Anne Lamott (Bird by Bird)
- A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.--Martin Luther King, Jr. (Strength to Love)
- Once you have been confronted with a life-and-death situation, trivia no longer matters. Your perspective grows and you live at a deeper level. There's no time for pettiness.--Margaretta (Happy) Rockefeller
- Teach him to live a life rather than to avoid death; life is not breath but action.--Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.--Rumi
- This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.--Tyron Edwards
- Thinking and talking about death need not be morbid; they may be quite the opposite. Ignorance and fear of death overshadow life, while knowing and accepting death erases this shadow.--Lily Pincus
- This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.--Winifred Holtby
- To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die.--Thomas Campbell
- We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.--Chuck Palahniuk
- Whenever I hear someone died of natural causes, I think, "Wait a minute. I have that."--Steve Martin (on Twitter, 10/24/15)
- Without death, our lives would have no meaning. Death frames our end for us and also puts a value on things.--Richard J. Leider and David A. Shapiro (Claiming your Place at the Fire: Living the Second Half of Your Life on Purpose)
- Your life is finite, your death is guaranteed. Rather than wait 'til old age before regarding each day as precious, choose to regard each day as precious right now. --Jeff Davidson (Breathing Space: Living & Working at a Comfortable Pace in a Sped-Up Society)
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