Loved Ones Who Died Quotes

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

  Mark Twain

  Positive, Death, Spiritual

  "A Voice Crying In The Wilderness". Book by Edward Abbey, 1989.

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• Death cannot kill what never dies.

  William Penn

  Sympathy, Grief, Condolences

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Sympathy, Death

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1081, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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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• They that love beyond the world
  cannot be separated by it.
  Death cannot kill what never dies.

  William Penn

  Sympathy, Death, Grief

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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• Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Death, Running

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

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• If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.

  James O'Barr

  Sympathy, Death, Real

  "The Crow". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

  Walter Scott

  Sympathy, Death, Grief

  Sir Walter Scott (1833). “The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations”

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• Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death.

  Isaiah

  Rest In Peace, Lying, Mourning

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• Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

  Andrew Sachs

  Life, Death, Adventure

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• In the godforsaken, obscene quicksand of life, there is a deafening alleluia rising from the souls of those who weep, and of those who weep with those who weep. If you watch, you will see The hand of God putting the stars back in their skies one by one.

  Ann Weems

  Death, Stars, Prayer

  Ann Weems (1999). “Psalms of Lament”, p.22, Westminster John Knox Press

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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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• 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. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Change, Grief, Learning

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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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• Everyone dies but not everyone lives.

  William Wallace

  Death, Funeral, Remembrance

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• No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.

  Steve Jobs

  Death, Suicide, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• When you awaken in the morning's hush
  I am the swift uplifting rush
  Of quiet birds in circled flight.
  I am the soft stars that shine at night.
  Do not stand at my grave and cry;
  I am not there, I did not die.

  Mary Elizabeth Frye

  Uplifting, Morning, Stars

  Mary Elizabeth Frye, “Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep”

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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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• He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sympathy, Condolences, Losing A Loved One

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “Hyperion: A Romance”, p.233

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• The idea is to die young as late as possible.

  Ashley Montagu

  Motivational, Death, Kids

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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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• Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  I Miss You, Missing You, Broken Heart

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• But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.

  Mitch Albom

  Sad, Losing A Loved One, Fighting

  Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Love, Birthday, Death

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