Condolences Poems Quotes

• Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

  Rossiter W. Raymond

  Sympathy, Death, Military

  Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

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• If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "If I can stop one heart from breaking" l. 1 (ca. 1865)

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• When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

  Khalil Gibran

  Death, Grieving, Bereavement

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.

  Mary Elizabeth Frye

  Death, Lost Love, Losing A Loved One

  "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep" l. 15 (1932).

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• Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room.

  Joanna Lumley

  Remembrance, Death Of A Loved One, Dying

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• I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are.

  Henry Scott Holland

  Remembrance, Memorial, Death Of A Loved One

  Henry Scott Holland, “Death Is Nothing At All”

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• And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Imagination, Mountain

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

  W. H. Auden

  Dog, Grief, Cutting

  "Funeral Blues" l. 1 (1936)

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• Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day.

  Liane Moriarty

  Sympathy, Condolences, Losing A Loved One

  Liane Moriarty (2014). “Big Little Lies: Now an HBO limited series”, p.385, Penguin UK

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• Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

  Khalil Gibran

  Grieving, Rivers, Silence

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.128, Lulu.com

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• A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

  Rossiter W. Raymond

  Sympathy, Condolences, Sight

  Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

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• 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.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Death, Spiritual

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.128, Lulu.com

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

  Helen Keller

  Love, Sympathy, Death

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Death, Song

  "Funeral Blues" l. 9 (1936)

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• For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered? Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountaintop,then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shal claim your limbs,then shall you truly dance.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wind, Breathing, Rivers

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.128, Lulu.com

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Sympathy, Death, Grief

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.126, Lulu.com

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• Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

  Khalil Gibran

  Rivers, Silence, Drink

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.128, Lulu.com

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• You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heath of life? The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light. If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one. For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?

  Khalil Gibran

  Death, Heart, Eye

  Khalil Gibran, “Death XXVII”

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• In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond.

  Khalil Gibran

  Lying, Desire, Depth

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.126, Lulu.com

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• If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.

  Khalil Gibran

  Death, Heart, Sea

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Like the seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.

  Khalil Gibran

  Dream, Spring, Heart

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life.

  Khalil Gibran

  Death, Heart, Secret

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.

  Khalil Gibran

  Kings, Fear, Hands

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.126, Lulu.com

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• The stars are not wanted now, put out every one Pack up the moon & dismantle the sun.

  W. H. Auden

  Stars, Moon, Funeral

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.87, DEBOLS!LLO

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