“With every breath you take, someone just took their last. Stop complaining about life. It has given you much more than what you appreciate.”

“I would have followed you to hell and back… if only you’d lead me back.”

“Are not our lives too short for that full utterance which through all our stammerings is of course our only and abiding intention? – Joseph Conrad”

“The desert was a school, a school where each day, each hour, a final examination was offered, where failure meant death and the buzzards landed to correct the papers. – Louis L’Amour”

“Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn’t much different, finally, from any other kind of dying. – Richard Yates”

“Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying. – Thomas Paine”

“I have never lived a life so much larger than death. – Stephen Levine”

“It’s better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear. – Michael Crichton”

“Death isn’t funny. Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us, us humans, death is so sad that we must laugh at it. – Robert A. Heinlein”

“Grieving is your heart’s way of repairing itself.”

“When a solipsist dies, everything goes with him. – David Foster Wallace”

“Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected. – Sogyal Rinpoche”

“Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. – William Cowper”

“When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.”

“But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time’s fool, And Time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop. – William Shakespeare”

“If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times. – Dean Smith”

“Some days I feel like I will die for them. Some days, with them.”

“Open your heart to sympathy, and let the healing process begin.”

“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’s life should have listened to the moonly whispers of breathing in the coldest nights.”

“In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn’t lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot. – Douglas Adams”

“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”

“Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. – Marcus Aurelius”

“There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this. – Paulo Coelho”

“The phoenix must burn to emerge. – Janet Fitch”

“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”

“Learn as if you might live forever and you’ll live as if you might die tomorrow.”

“How I wish I could undo it all, take it all back. All those years I spent unhappy with him, when I should have been looking for you.”

“To miss someone is a reminder to us that we were not fully present when they were with us. When you are fully present, the strength of your appreciation for them will be as powerful as when they are not there.”

“To look upon its grass grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace. – Washington Irving”

“Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death? – Euripides”

“All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy. – Scott Alexander”

“Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”

“We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life. – Michel de Montaigne”

“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”

“Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him. – E. M. Forster”

“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. – Arthur Miller”

“When people leave you, identify why they left and think about what is left.”

“Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time. – William S. Burroughs”

“The first breath is the beginning of death. – Thomas Fuller”

“You have to die a few times before you can really live. – Charles Bukowski”

“Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them. – Edgar Allan Poe”

“Grieving hard is a testament to the depth of your love.”

“Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand. – E. M. Forster”

“If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. – Maya Angelou”

“Let it rain on some days, Let yourself shiver on some cold nights, So when it’s Spring you’ll know why it was all worth going through.”

“Poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you. – Walt Whitman”

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”

“Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.”

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.”

“Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.”

“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.”

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

“It is not length of life, but depth of life.”

“To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”

“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.”

“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”

“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”

“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.”

“Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day.”

“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.”

“The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”

“Every man dies. Not every man really lives.”

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”

“The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.”

“Do not pity the dead. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.”

“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”

“Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.”

“Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation.”

“Death is the last chapter in time, but the first chapter in eternity.”

“What is lovely never dies, but passes into another loveliness.”

“A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”

“Grief is the price we pay for love.”

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”

“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”

“Tears are the silent language of grief.”

“Those we hold closest to our hearts never truly leave us. They live on in the kindness they have shared and the love they brought into our lives.”

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er fraught heart and bids it break.”

“The darker the night, the brighter the stars. The deeper the grief, the closer is God.”

“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”

“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not get over the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it.”

“Grief never ends, but it changes. It’s a passage, not a place to stay.”

“There is no goodbye for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.”

“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.”

“When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.”

“Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.”

“Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon.”

“Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.”

“The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.”

“Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.”

“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.”

“Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.”

“Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark.”

“Life is uncertain. Death is certain.”

“No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.”

“The act of dying is one of the acts of life.”

“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.”

“Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.”

“Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”

“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.”

“Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.”

“All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.”