Comforting Death 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

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

topic: Sympathy, Death, Military, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Condolences

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

- Helen Keller

topic: Love, Death, Grief, Endless Love, Everlasting Love

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

topic: Change, Grief, Learning, Way In Life, Empowering Women

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

- James Thurber

topic: Dog, Nature, Animal, I Love My Dog, Labrador Dogs

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

- William Penn

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

topic: Sympathy, Death, Love Is, Inspirational Condolences, Memorial For Loved One

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

- Ashley Montagu

topic: Death, Ideas, Young, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

Do not seek death. Death will find you.

- Dag Hammarskjold

source: "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

topic: Someone Dying, Meaningful Death, Death And Dying, Fulfillment In Life, Death Comfort

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

- Dag Hammarskjold

topic: Death, Funeral, Dying, Someone Dying, Meaningful Death

I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start ith death. We are in eternity now.

- Norman Vincent Peale

source: Norman Vincent Peale (1987). “The power of positive thinking”, Prentice Hall

topic: Death, Believe, Two Sides, Love Death, Love And Death

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

topic: Inspirational, Death, Rest In Peace, Spiritual Light, Memorial For Loved One

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

- Washington Irving

topic: Tears, Weakness, Mark, Hurt My Feelings, Hurt Feelings

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

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Love, Sympathy, Death, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Condolences

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

- Kenji Miyazawa

topic: Positive, Pain, Journey, Scoliosis, Hurt And Pain

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

- Jim Butcher

source: Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.997, Penguin

topic: Bible, Shadow Of Death, Death Of A Loved One, Valley Of Death, Someone Dying

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

- Thomas Moore

source: Thomas Moore (1861). “Poetical works”, p.304

topic: Death, Spiritual, Angel, Sorrow Love, Joy And Grief

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Happy, Peace, Sleep, Live Life To Its Fullest, Meaningful Death

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

- Richard Bach

topic: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Someone Dying, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

- William Penn

topic: Sympathy, Death, Time, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Condolences

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Sympathy, Missing You, Death, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

- Chief Seattle

source: Albert Furtwangler, Chief Seattle (1997). “Answering Chief Seattle”, p.25, University of Washington Press

topic: Change, Native American, Psychics, Indian Wisdom, Meaningful Death

The song is ended, but the melody lingers on...

- Irving Berlin

source: Title of song (1927)

topic: Song, Prayer, Memorial, Inspirational Death, Memorial Stone

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life

- Lucan

topic: Sympathy, Death, Men, Inspirational Condolences, Suffering And Death

Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life. Rodger Rosenblatt As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Death, Sleep, Thinking, Live Life To Its Fullest, Live To The Fullest

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

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Sympathy, Sea, Rivers, Inspirational Condolences, Inspirational Grief

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

- George S. Patton

source: Speech at the Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, on June 07, 1945. "Patton, ordeal and triumph". Book by Ladislas Farago, 1963.

topic: Death, Wisdom, Memorial Day, Someone Who Is Dying, Inspirational Condolences

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

- Mark Twain

topic: Positive, Men, Fear Of Death, Someone Who Is Dying, Live To The Fullest

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

topic: Death, Children, Tree, Younger Generation, Not Afraid Of Death

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

- Isaiah

topic: Rest In Peace, Lying, Mourning, Mourning A Loss, Mourning Death

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

- Seneca the Younger

topic: Birthday, Lasts, Eternity, Memorial For Loved One, Inspirational Mourning