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Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
Sep 10, 2025
For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime - as I did when my father and other relatives succumbed - even one of those years would have been a precious gift.
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.
Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
Everyone dies but not everyone lives.
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching
Life is a hurricane, and we board up to save what we can and bow low to the earth to crouch in that small space above the dirt where the wind will not reach. We honor anniversaries of deaths by cleaning graves and sitting next to them before fires, sharing food with those who will not eat again. We raise children and tell them other things about who they can be and what they are worth: to us, everything. We love each other fiercely, while we live and after we die. We survive; we are savages.
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed, and every single one of his friends, still, after all these years... it's unbelievable.
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
Death is no more than passing from one room into another.
For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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