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Do not say that every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to dying. Every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to finally living.
Oct 2, 2025
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
God's finger touched him, and he slept.
When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... It's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
When we have passed the tests we are sent to Earth to learn, we are allowed to graduate. We are allowed to shed our body, which imprisons our souls.
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help make the big choices in life. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.
A human life is a story told by God.
Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day.
Grief is the price we pay for love.
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.
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Ah, Lord Jesus! I never knew Your love till I understood the meaning of Your death.
People living deeply have no fear of death.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
Life does not end when we die. Death is a rebirth into a spirit world of light and love, a transition from the physical to the spiritual that is no more frightening or painful than passing between rooms through an open doorway. It is a joyful homecoming to our natural home, . . .
I firmly believe that when you die you will enter immediately into another life. They who have gone before us are alive in one form of life and we in another.
Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking, without the need to look back. No shock, no drama, just the lifting of a plank or two in a simple wooden gate in a clearing. Neither pain, nor floods of light, nor great voices, but just the silent crossing of a meadow.
Death is but a transition from this life to another existence where there is no more pain and anguish. All the bitterness and disagreements will vanish, and the only thing that lives forever is love.
In one sense there is no death. The life of a soul on earth lasts beyond departure. You will always feel that life touching yours, that voice speaking to you. He/She lives on in your life and in the lives of all others that knew him/her.
Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.
People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
People will never forget how you made them feel.
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.
No Christian is abandoned at the moment of death. The angels are the ushers, and our passage to heaven is under their escort.