Death Quotes

• 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

  Sympathy, True Love, Goodbye

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  I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

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

  Norman Cousins

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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• Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Smile, Uplifting

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• 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

  Life, Wisdom, Children

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.91, Princeton University Press

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• 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

  Love, Marriage, Sympathy

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

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Rest In Peace, Light

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• When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... It's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.

  Patrick Swayze

  Positive, Life Lesson, Live Life

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• Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Beautiful, Time

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.205, Wordsworth Editions

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• You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

  Joan Baez

  Inspirational, Positive, Fun

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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• The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

  Thornton Wilder

  Gratitude, Grief, Grateful

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• In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• 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

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Atheist

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

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life, Eulogy, Dying

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.260, OUP Oxford

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• Grief is not a disorder, a disease or sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.

  Earl A Grollman

  Love, Inspirational, Spiritual

  Earl A. Grollman (2014). “Straight Talk about Death for Teenagers: How to Cope with Losing Someone You Love”, p.6, Beacon Press

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Good Night

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• Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, 'Did you bring joy?' The second was, 'Did you find joy?

  Leo Buscaglia

  Happiness, Lost Love, Journey

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  After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Suicide, Philosophical, Dying

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.268, Oxford University Press

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• Death is a release from and an end of all pains.

  Seneca the Younger

  Pain, Release, Ends

  "Of Consolation to Marcia". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1635.

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  Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Humorous, Profound, Dying

  The Twilight of the Idols

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• Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

  Blaise Pascal

  Suicide, Years, Trying

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• Death ends a life, not a relationship.

  Jack Lemmon

  Life, True Love, Sorry

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• Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Loss, Teach, Beach House

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.6, Publishdrive

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