Not a day goes by that I don't look at your picture and smile. Or cry. Or both. @ -Dean Jackson
Healing from grief has no time limit and only you know how long you need.
We only part to meet again. @ -John Gay
Be the things you loved most about the people who are gone.
Life asked death, 'Why do people love me but hate you?' Death responded, 'Because you are a beautiful lie and I am a painful truth'.
The ones that love us never really leave us. @ -Sirius Black
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other. @ -Leo Buscaglia
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation. @ -Rumi
Remembering our loved ones is breathing life into their fading images, that we might once more see their faces and pass along a tearful 'I miss you.' @ -Richelle E. Goodrich
No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear. @ -C. S. Lewis
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. @ -Headstone
Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity. @ -Mother Teresa
It takes just a few seconds to say hello, but it takes forever to say goodbye.
Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive. @ -Charlotte Brontë
When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn't. @ -Ram Dass
How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind? @ -Carson McCullers
Death ends a life, not a relationship. @ -Mitch Albom
Every exit is an entry somewhere else. @ -Tom Stoppard
We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim. @ -R.M. Drake
For some moments in life there are no words. @ -David Seltzer
To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. @ -Yann Martel
Tonight I look up searching for you among the stars. @ -Tilicia Haridat
Don't be afraid to cry. It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts. @ -Hopi
It's okay to not be okay.
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things. @ -Arthur Schopenhauer
You'll survive this just like you survived every other hardship that's been placed before you.
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. Washington Irving
People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies. @ -Haruki Murakami
Take time by yourself to feel the fullness of your sadness and thank it before releasing it.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. @ -Psalm 23:4:
What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. @ -Helen Keller
Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. @ -Joan Didion
Because life is fragile and death inevitable, we must make the most of each day. @ -Thomas S. Monson
They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind. @ -Tuscarora
We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. @ -Chuck Palahniuk
Moving on doesn't mean you forget about things, it just means you have to accept what happened and continue living.
Isn't it sad that so often it takes facing death to appreciate life and each other fully? @ -Esther Earl
So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love. @ -E. A. Bucchianeri
The death of a beloved is an amputation. @ -C. S. Lewis
One cannot get through life without pain... What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us. @ -Bernie S. Siegel
Are you alive or just breathing?
Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone. @ -Jiddu Krishnamurti
Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you. @ -Shannon L. Alder
Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life. @ -Albert Einstein
We all lose friends... We lose them in death, to distance, and over time. But even though they may be lost, hope is not. The key is to keep them in your heart, and when the time is right, you can pick up the friendship right where you left off. @ -Amy Marie Walz
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them. @ -Leo Tolstoy
If I can see pain in your eyes, then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes, then share with me your smile. @ -Santosh Kalwar
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. @ -Norman Cousins
Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living. @ -Jo Nesbø
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. @ -Mahatma Gandhi
Heaven doesn't ignore cries of a broken heart. @ -Toba Beta
Everyone dies. But not everyone really lives.
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
There is love in holding and there is love in letting go. @ -Elizabeth Berg
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. @ -Sir Thomas More
They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time. @ -Banksy
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. @ -George Eliot
Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect. @ -J.K. Rowling
If today I die, I will be at peace because I have known my soul mate and have understood the true meaning of love. @ -Lora Joseph
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. @ -Harriet Beecher Stowe
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. @ -Thomas Campbell
The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude. @ -Thornton Wilder
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. @ -Marcus Aurelius
If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled? @ -Jodi Picoult
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. @ -Isaac Asimov
Die with memories, not dreams.
We can't fully appreciate joyful reunions later without tearful separations now. The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life. @ -Russell M. Nelson
The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created. @ -Meghan O'Rourke
Life is hard. After all, it kills you. @ -Katharine Hepburn
For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain. @ -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken? @ -Terry Pratchett
And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief. @ -William Cullen Bryant
End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it. @ -J.R.R. Tolkien
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. @ -George S. Patton
Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion to death. @ -Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be. @ -Joan Didion
Don’t feel bad for feeling.
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. @ -Marcus Tullius Cicero
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows. @ -Socrates
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. @ -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To stay inside your head just feeds sorrow, shrink it by seeking laughter and joy.
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. @ -Leonardo da Vinci
No one here gets out alive. @ -Jim Morrison
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride! @ -Hunter S. Thompson
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live. @ -Joan Baez
Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.
To fear death is to misunderstand life.
Death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent, it clears out the old to make way for the new. @ -Steve Jobs
Everyone wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.
We don't die from a broken heart; we keep breathing with the hope we'll get it right next time.
She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts. @ -George Eliot
Picking at scabs leaves bigger scars, the same applies to past emotional hurts. Leave them alone and give them time to heal.
Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. @ -Winston Churchill
Fear does not stop death. It stops life. @ -Vi Keeland
The idea is to die young as late as possible. @ -Ashley Montagu
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. @ -James Dean
Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself. @ -Havelock Ellis
When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time. @ -Laurie Halse Anderson
The greatest certainty in life is death.  The greatest uncertainty is the time. @ -Carl Sandburg
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age. @ -Booth Tarkington
It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life. @ -Terry Pratchett
In the end, the treasure of life is missed by those who hold on and gained by those who let go. @ -Lao Tzu
The meaning of life is that it stops. @ -Franz Kafka
Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected. @ -Sogyal Rinpoche
Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid. @ -Langston Hughes
We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing. @ -Charles Bukowski
To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the "what is next", of our lives. Without dreams and goals there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here. @ -Mark Twain
Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future. @ -Fulton Oursler
For the goal is to die with memories, not dreams.
The meaning of life is to give life meaning. @ -Ken Hudgins
If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit. @ -Thomas Merton
Everyone dies eventually, whether they have power or not. That's why you need to think about what you'll accomplish while you're alive. @ -Mary Macbeth
I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to. @ -Jimi Hendrix
If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life. @ -Pablo Neruda
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death. @ -Robert Fulghum
Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality. @ -Socrates
You needn't die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end. @ -Stephen King
Go where you feel most alive.
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go. @ -Jean de La Fontaine
After your death, you will be what you were before your birth. @ -Arthur Schopenhauer
Life begins where fear ends. @ -Osho
Acceptance teaches us that our new life after acceptance is a life after our tragedy, a life where we remember our loved one but also a life where we do not live in the past, we live for our future. @ -Valerie Orr
I regret not death. I am going to meet my friends in another world. @ -Ludovico Ariosto
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. @ -Richard Bach
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death — ourselves. @ -Eda LeShan
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. @ -Mark Twain
We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening. @ -Zhuangzi
Death pays all debts. @ -William Shakespeare
We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die... You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet. @ -William Boyd
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. @ -Arthur Miller
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. @ -Cherokee Expression
There is a time to live and a time to die but never to reject the moment. @ -Lao Tzu
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. @ -Elbert Hubbard
I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes. @ -Mahatma Gandhi
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven. @ -Tryon Edwards
Preparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do. Thinking about death clarifies your life. @ -Candy Chang
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. @ -Leonardo da Vinci
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. @ -Lao Tzu
Have no regrets. The elderly usually don't have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets.
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. @ -J.K. Rowling
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. @ -Willa Cather
Don't allow yourself to become one who, nearing death, regrets what you might have done if only you had taken a few risks. We each have a purpose in life. @ -Gillian Stokes
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway. @ -John Wayne
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve. @ -Lao Tzu
Everyone's story ends in death, what makes it a tragedy is not letting yourself have a great life while you are here.
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. @ -Elie Wiesel
All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy. @ -Scott Alexander
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. @ -Maya Angelou
If you can't live longer, live deeper. @ -Italian proverb
Happiness can exist only in acceptance. @ -George Orwell
Everyone dies but not everyone lives. @ -William Wallace
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. @ -Buddha
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see. @ -Helen Keller
When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived. @ -Henry David Thoreau
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves. @ -Alan Watts
Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. @ -Henry David Thoreau
What would life be worth if there were no death? Who would enjoy the sun if it never rained? Who would yearn for the day if there were no night? @ -Glenn Ringtved
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead. @ -Albert Einstein
I don't want to die without any scars. @ -Chuck Palahniuk
Everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death. @ -Thomas Bernhard
Neither the sun, nor death can be looked at steadily. @ -François de La Rochefoucauld
It took me forty years on earth to reach this sure conclusion: there is no heaven but clarity, no hell except confusion. @ -Jan Struther
How tragic that man can never realize how beautiful life is until he is face to face with death. @ -Ikiru
It's better to burn out than to fade away. @ -Neil Young
There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this. @ -Paulo Coelho
When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened. @ -Margaret Mead
Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death. @ -William Gurnall
Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. @ -Tecumseh
Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying. @ -Yoko Ono
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. @ -Michael J. Fox
We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and-in spite of True Romance magazines - we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. @ -Hunter S. Thompson
You have to die a few times before you can really live. @ -Charles Bukowski
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance. @ -Nathaniel Branden
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation. It dies with the body, which is why we are so afraid of death. Death scares the hell out of who you think you are, especially if you think you are this body. @ -Ram Dass
Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest, as the means that accommodates human life with a soft and easy tranquility, and gives us a pure and pleasant taste of living, without which all other pleasure would be extinct. @ -Michel de Montaigne
What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death, so that death itself may eventually be overcome. That is why people write symphonies, and why they discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves. @ -Boris Pasternak
People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad. @ -Marcel Proust
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. @ -Leonardo da Vinci
You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live. @ -Neil Gaiman
The first breath is the beginning of death. @ -Thomas Fuller
Live or die, but don't poison everything. @ -Anne Sexton
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again. @ -Pema Chödrön
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. @ -Edgar Allan Poe
Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities. @ -George R.R. Martin
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. @ -Steve Jobs
What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying. @ -Albert Camus
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing. @ -Anaïs Nin
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this. @ -Henry David Thoreau
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. @ -W.M. Lewis
In my end is my beginning. @ -Mary, Queen of Scots
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. @ -Winston Churchill
The death rate for people who play it safe and for people who live boldly is the same: 100% @ -Patti Digh
Unable are the loved to die for love is immortality. @ -Emily Dickinson
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. @ -Thomas Mann
Everybody dies but not everybody lives. @ -Drake
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. @ -Andrew Sachs
When death overtakes us, all that we have is left to others; all that we are we take with us.
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself. @ -George Bernard Shaw
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand. @ -William Blake
Being alive is enough, staying alive is enough.
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. @ -Anne Frank
Life has more meaning in the face of death. @ -Robert Greene
We can get better, because we're not dead yet. @ -Frank Turner
Live and allow others to live; hurt no one; life is dear to all living beings. @ -Mahavira
Nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns. @ -Bryant H. McGill
And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment. @ -Bodhidharma
The human body can be placed under huge stresses before death will result. @ -Steven Magee
That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death. Listen to them. @ -Connie Willis
Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies. @ -Erich Fromm
We owe respect to the living; to the dead we owe only truth. @ -Voltaire
Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love... @ -Rainer Maria Rilke
I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time. @ -William Faulkner
Death is a law, not a punishment. @ -Jean Dubos
Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves. @ -Rabindranath Tagore
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. @ -Joseph Stalin
If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times. @ -Dean Smith
All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill. @ -Buddha
Don't die without embracing the daring adventure your life was meant to be. @ -Steve Pavlina
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. @ -Socrates
Passivity means death, activity is living. If you are passive, you allow negative things to come into your life.
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death. @ -Samuel Butler
You want to live - but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying - and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead? @ -Seneca
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death. @ -Julius Caesar
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them. @ -Rabindranath Tagore
Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear. @ -Byron Katie
Death takes no bribes. @ -Benjamin Franklin
Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him. @ -E. M. Forster
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live. @ -Victor Hugo
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. @ -Dag Hammarskjold
Death commences too early - almost before you're half-acquainted with life - you meet the other. @ -Tennessee Williams
Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal. @ -Benjamin Franklin
Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in. @ -Saul Alinsky
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. @ -Horace Mann
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die. @ -Amelia Burr
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. @ -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified. @ -Alan Watts
The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world. @ -Buddha
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. @ -Ralph Waldo Emerson
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. @ -Antonio Porchia
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world. @ -John Steinbeck
Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home. @ -Tecumseh
Death is nothing, but to live defeated is to die every day. @ -Napoleon Bonaparte
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. @ -Mark Twain
I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another. @ -John Lennon
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. @ -Frank Herbert
The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective. @ -James Patterson
Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell. @ -Emily Dickinson
Faith that lives on emotion dies with emotion. Faith that is rooted, not in how we feel but in how we live, survives the emotional roller coaster of the holiday seasons. @ -S. Joseph Krempa
I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death. @ -David Blaine
Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back. @ -Marcus Aurelius
You are facing death and danger and competition, but at any moment, you can decide to have a fearless mindset. @ -Robert Greene
Success is failure recycled. Life is death reborn. @ -Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Disappointment had to be postponed, hope kept alive as long as possible. @ -Graham Greene
Fear kills more people than death. @ -Gen. Patton
Without health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering – an image of death. @ -Buddha
Man always thinks about the past before he dies, as if he were frantically searching for proof that he truly lived. @ -Jet Black
People living deeply have no fear of death. @ -Anaïs Nin
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life. @ -Bertolt Brecht
Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter. @ -Albert Camus
A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live. @ -Lao Tzu
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same. @ -Charlotte Brontë
The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms. @ -Lao Tzu
Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" - and find that there is no death. @ -Eckhart Tolle
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. @ -Henry Van Dyke
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. @ -Mark Twain
If you are mindful of death, it will not come as a surprise-you will not be anxious. You will feel that death is merely like changing clothes. Consequently, at that point you will be able to maintain your calmness of mind. @ -Dalai Lama
Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes. @ -Buddha
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn't yet lived. @ -Franz Kafka
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. @ -Anatole France
What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life. @ -Emil Brunner
Some do not understand that we must die, but those who do realize this settle their quarrels. @ -Buddha
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. @ -Ernest Hemingway
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat. @ -Henry David Thoreau
Give place to others, as others have given place to you. Equality is the soul of equity. Who can complain of being comprehended in the same destiny, wherein all are involved? @ -Michel de Montaigne
What is dead may never die. @ -George R.R. Martin
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. @ -Kahlil Gibran
Death is a distant rumor to the young. @ -Andrew A. Rooney
Death is a word, and it is the word, the image, that creates fear. @ -Jiddu Krishnamurti
We must constantly remind ourselves that we are eternity, infinite, beyond birth and death. @ -Frederick Lenz
We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life. @ -Michel de Montaigne
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. @ -Bertrand Russell
Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact we have no fear of death anymore, and we have no actual difficulty in our life. @ -Shunryu Suzuki
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. @ -W. Somerset Maugham
Though death be poor, it ends a mortal woe. @ -William Shakespeare
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. @ -Rabindranath Tagore
To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment. @ -H. E. Davey
To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity. @ -Osho
Death is never an apology. @ -Soul King
Death anxiety is greater in those who feel they have lived an unfulfilled life. @ -Irvin Yalom
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. @ -Marcus Aurelius
To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths. @ -Edgar Allan Poe
We go from birth to death. Three out of ten follow life. Three out of ten follow death. People who rush from birth to death are also three out of ten. Why is that so? Because they want to make too much of life. @ -Lao Tzu
Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die. @ -Douglas MacArthur
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. @ -Anaïs Nin
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. @ -Seneca
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. @ -Eleanor Roosevelt
Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave. @ -Jane Hamilton
One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough. @ -Hafiz of Persia
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. @ -William Cowper
Do not seek death. But do not fear it either. There cannot be life without death, it is inescapable. @ -Keisei Tagami
The phoenix must burn to emerge. @ -Janet Fitch
There is "what is" only when there is no comparison at all, and to live with what is, is to be peaceful. @ -Bruce Lee
Cowards may die many times before their death.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death. @ -James F. Byrnes
Death is but a door, time is but a window. I'll be back. @ -Ghostbusters II
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. @ -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
No art is possible without a dance with death. @ -Kurt Vonnegut
A normal human being does not want the Kingdom of Heaven: he wants life on earth to continue. @ -George Orwell
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavour. @ -Eleanor Roosevelt
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely. @ -Albert Camus
A life lived in fear is a life half lived. @ -Spanish proverb
I think death is equally terrible for everyone. Young people, old people, the good, the bad; it's always the same. It's rather fair in its treatment. There's no such thing as a terrible death, that's why it's frightening. @ -Sunako
Dying is like coming to the end of a long novel - you only regret it if the ride was enjoyable and left you wanting more. @ -Jerome P. Crabb
Bliss is the outcome of fearlessness. Fear is death, fearless is eternal life. @ -Osho
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east. @ -Rumi
Life is not about counting the losses and the lost expectations, but rather swimming, with as much grace as can be mustered, in the joy of all of it. @ -Leisa Hammett
I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. @ -J.K. Rowling
To die will be an awfully big adventure. @ -Peter Pan
The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning. @ -Raymond Radiguet
It is the fate - the genetic and neural fate - of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. @ -Oliver Sacks
All of life is a near-death experience. @ -Alan Harris
It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. @ -Ralph Waldo Emerson
You've gotta know what death is to know life. @ -Jack Kevorkian
Live how we can, yet die we must. @ -William Shakespeare
Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die. @ -Forrest Church
He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.  @ -George R.R. Martin
Death makes equal the high and low. @ -John Heywood
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. @ -Friedrich Nietzsche
Dying is an art. @ -Sylvia Plath
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying. @ -Martin Luther King
