Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
Death cannot kill what never dies.
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
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.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.
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.
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
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.
You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life.
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.
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.
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.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet 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.
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