Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Death & Dying

Death & Dying

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 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 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)
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
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
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
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
To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die.--Thomas Campbell
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)