50 Touching Death Quotes To Comfort Your Grieving Heart

1. "Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation." - Rumi

2. "Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life." - Albert Einstein

3. "Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live." - Norman Cousins

4. "Grief is not a disorder, a disease or sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve." - Earl A. Grollman

5. "Those we love don't go away, they walk beside us every day. Unseen, unheard, but always near, still loved, still missed and very dear" - Unknown

6. "We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passers-by to ashes underlying the earth" - Kim Elizabeth

7. "Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow." - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

8. "We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will." - Chuck Palahniuk

9. "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." - Steve Jobs

10. "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." - George S. Patton

11. "Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time..It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other." - Leo Buscaglia

12. "Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace" - Nelson Mandela

13. "Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves" - Rabindranath Tagore

14. "Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid" - Langston Hughes

15. "Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace" - Oscar Wilde

16. "When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn't" - Ram Dass

17. "All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity" - William Shakespeare

18. "Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come" - Rabindranath Tagore

19. "To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure" - J.K. Rowling

20. "Death, in itself, is nothing; but we fear, to be we know not what, we know not where" - John Dryden

21. "The connections we make in the course of a life – maybe that's what heaven is" - Fred Rogers

22. "A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist" - Stewart Alsop

23. "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

24. "Dying is like coming to the end of a long novel, you only regret it if the ride was enjoyable and left you wanting more." - Jerome P. Crabb

25. "There is love in holding and there is love in letting go" - Elizabeth Berg

1. "Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back." - Marcus Aurelius

2. "The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude." - Thornton Wilder

3. "After your death you will be what you were before your birth." - Arthur Schopenhauer

4. "There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind." - C. S. Lewis

5. "Death is a release from and an end of all pains." - Seneca the Younger

6. "Death ends a life, not a relationship." - Jack Lemmon

7. "Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things." - Arthur Schopenhauer

8. "The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

9. "Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them." - George Eliot

10. "All stories, if continued far enough, end in death." - Ernest Hemingway

11. "Nothing can happen more beautiful than death." - Walt Whitman

12. "Death may be the greatest of all human blessings" - Socrates

13. "Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all" - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

14. "The goal of all life is death" - Sigmund Freud

15. "Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity." - John Milton

1. "Death is nature's way of saying, 'Your table is ready.'" - Robin Williams

2. "No one here gets out alive." - Jim Morrison

3. "It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you're dead, you're made for life." - Jimi Hendrix

4. "When you're dead, you're dead. That's it." - Marlene Dietrich

5. "There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven." - Isaac Asimov

6. "I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens." - Woody Allen

7. "I have a positive approach to death. I'm positive I'm going to die. You know, sometime." - Greg Tamblyn

8. "What happens after you die? Lot's of things happen after you die - they just don't involve you" - Louis C. K.

9. "The trouble with quotes about death is that 99.9% of them are made by people who are still alive." - Joshua Burns

10. "I am prepared to meet my maker. Whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." - Winston Churchill