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Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored.
Sep 10, 2025
Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.
We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.
Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.
I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
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.
He kept at true good humor's mark The social flow of pleasure's tide: He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused a tear, but when he died.
Death is the most blessed dream.
If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.
Although no words can really help to ease the loss you bear, Just know that you are very close in every thought and prayer. To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.
A human life is a story told by God.
Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day.
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
When you are sorrowful, look again.
Death cannot kill what never dies.
Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.
And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals?
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.
Death is no more than passing from one room into another.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
... Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death. Sympathy for the afflicted makes a reality of the affliction by its recognition as an infliction, while sorrow for the loss of anything, or for the »unfortunate« condition of anybody, is forgetful of the beauty and abundance of all-giving God and Nature. The Mind of God knows but one unchanging emotion - ECSTASY - the ecstasy of Love - the ecstasy which has its beginnings in an inner joyousness of one who is far on the road to the discovery of his immortal Self.
With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!
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.