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

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

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

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

- Emily Dickinson

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

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

Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there, I do not sleep. I am in a thousand winds that blow, I am the softly falling snow. I am the gentle showers of rain, I am the fields of ripening grain. I am in the morning hush, I am in the graceful rush Of beautiful birds in circling flight, I am the star shine of the night. I am in the flowers that bloom, I am in a quiet room. I am in the birds that sing, I am in each lovely thing. Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there. I do not die.

- Mary Elizabeth Frye

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

topic: Inspirational, Beautiful, Morning, Ripening, Inspirational Bereavement

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

- William Shakespeare

topic: Inspirational, Death, Courage, Someone Dying, Meaningful Death

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.

- James O'Barr

topic: Sympathy, Death, Lost Love, Inspirational Mourning, Love Grows

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

- Walter Scott

topic: Death, Sleep, Loss, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

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

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

- Andrew Sachs

topic: Death, Life Death, Someone Dying, Inspirational Grieving, Memorial For Loved One

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

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

topic: Stars, Prayer, Hands, Loved Ones Who Died, Death Of A Loved One

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

- Norman Cousins

topic: Inspirational, Life, Heartbreak, Meaningful Death, Inspirational Condolences

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

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

source: Khalil Gibran, “Death XXVII”

topic: Death, Heart, Eye, Death Poems, Loved Ones Who Died

Everyone dies but not everyone lives.

- William Wallace

topic: Someone Dying, Inspirational Grieving, Memorial For Loved One, Death Anniversary, Death Remembrance

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.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Death, People, Someone Who Is Dying, Meaningful Death

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

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

topic: Uplifting, Morning, Stars, Memorial For Loved One, Inspirational Sympathy

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Sympathy, Angel, Footprint, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Condolences

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

- Ashley Montagu

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

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

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

topic: Death, Heart, Sea, Death Poems, Loved Ones Who Died

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

topic: Broken Heart, Death, Fall, I Missed You, Someone You Miss

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

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

topic: Sad, Losing A Loved One, Fighting, Loss Of A Loved One, Lost Loved Ones

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

- Miguel de Unamuno

topic: Love, Birthday, Death, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

- Maurice Maeterlinck

topic: Death, Education, Pain, Loved Ones Who Died, Dying Death

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

- Willa Cather

topic: Life, Death, Spiritual, Loss Of A Loved One, Loved One Dying