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Welcome to these Sympathy Quotes about Death and Dying.
A man's good name is his best monument.
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
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Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland
The moment you start seeing life as non-serious, a playfulness, all the burden on your heart disappears.
All the fear of death, of life, of love - everything disappears.
- Osho
Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
- Lao Tzu
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.
- Anonymous
A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.
-
Thomas Mann
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.
-
Khalil Gibran
Dying is a wild night and a new road.
-
Emily Dickinson
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
- Rabindranath Tagore
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
- Chief Seattle
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
Except for the saintly, all of us have doubts about what lies beyond the veil of death.
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I cannot know the pain you feel.
I cannot share your memories or your loss.
My words of sympathy are beneath measure, yet
know that my heart reaches out with love to your heart.
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Celebrate endings - for they precede new beginnings.
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Do not mourn the dead, but comfort the living.
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Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect.
- Chief Seattle, 1854
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
George S. Patton
I give you this one thought to keep -
I am with you still - I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow,
I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush,
I am the sweet uplifting rush,
of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft starts that shine at night.
Do not think of me as gone -
I am with you still in each new dawn.
- Traditional Native American Prayer
My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
- Robert E. Lee
Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Ancient Indian Proverb
What is life?
It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across
the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
- Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator 1830 - 1890
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.
- Khalil Gibran
When we lose one we love,
our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
- Maurice Maeterlinck
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
- Khalil Gibran
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- George Eliot
I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
I've learned that you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them.
- Anonymous
Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
- Joseph Campbell
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
- Emily Dickinson
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I Did Not Die
Do not stand at my grave and weep;
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn's rain,
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.
- Anonymous
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
- Chief Seattle
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