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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
Sep 26, 2025
Everyone dies but not everyone lives.
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not "get over" the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.
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.
Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.
It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
Begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.
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.
Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.
Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.
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.
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.
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.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
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.
Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.
He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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.
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
From personal experience, I completely agree that it is often easier to go for monotone sadness. When I was starting out, I wrote a gazillion short stories that ran the gamut of human suffering - drug addiction, child abuse, terminal illness, loved ones dying by all manner of misfortune, etc. In hindsight, it's clear that I mistook the power of the situation for the power of the story.
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.
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.
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