Death is not the end, death is the sunrise before a beautiful day, death is the sun set before a starry night, death is only a beginning to a more beautiful life.
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. ~ Percival Arland Ussher
The idea is to die young as late as possible. ~ Ashley Montagu
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow. ~ Euripides
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. ~ Erik H. Erikson
Death is the golden key of eternity. ~ John Milton
We talked a little today. We shared some civil, almost light or humorous words ... and yet it didn't feel the way it used to. I didn't get the feeling that I used to ... rather there was a knot in my stomach. You looked in my eyes as we sat across from each other and I held it as long as I could handle and this time, I was the first to look away. Nothing is the same anymore. The looks aren't the same, the bond is not the same ... nothing is the same. I know we've fought to stay strong for a while but sometimes. I feel that being strong would mean letting go. So maybe one day, we won't pretend anymore. So maybe one day it will be okay again. That's all I want. I don't care what it takes; I want it to be okay again. ~ Alison
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time. ~ Harvey Mackay
If tears could build a stairway,
And memories a lane,
I would walk right up to heaven
And bring you home again.
No farewell words were spoken –
No time to say good-bye.
You were gone before I knew it
And only God knows why.
My heart still aches in sadness
And secrets tears still flow.
What it meant to lose you
No one will ever know.
Although we’ll miss your cheerful smile here on earth, it will brighten angels’ days for the rest of eternity.
Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; we will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. ~ William Wordsworth
Good-bye my friends I loved so dear, I am not dead but sleeping here. I was not yours, but Christ’s alone. He loved me best, He took me home.
You never know when you will lose someone, so grab them and tell them that you care now because it might be the last time you will ever be able to.
It’s just hard to lose someone, no matter how much or little it meant at the time. ~ Cristin McGrail
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot realize; the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure; the comforter of him whom time cannot console. ~ Colton
I wish I could hold you up and hug you tight and make all the pain go away ... I've watched you ache and heard your tears, but all the grief still stayed. So I wonder why God hasn't taken it from you, even though he heard all your cries. Then I realized that he wanted you to grow slowly but preciously in his sight.
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. ~ Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. ~ Norman Cousins
Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of everyday. Do it, I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows. ~ Michael Landon
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower wherever I thought a flower would grow. ~ Abraham Lincoln
When someone is drifting away from you, you feel it screaming inside.
Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself. ~ Good Will Hunting
I believe that if I should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps. ~ Benito Perez Galdos
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.
“You’ll get over it”. It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life forever. You don’t get over it because “it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The articulation of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hold in my heart is the shape of you and no one else can fit it. Why would I want them to? ~ Jeanette Winterson
Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people – they always go away sooner or later. You can’t hold them anymore than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you can really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.
When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose them all at once; you lose them in pieces over a long time – the way the mail stops coming – and their scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in their closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of them that are gone. Just when the day comes, when there’s a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feelings that they’re gone forever, there comes another day, and another missing part.
When someone is gone from your life for a really long time, you start to forget stuff about them. Like, you forget what their voice sounded like … and how they loved you so much … and how everything you did was completely okay with them. ~ Party of Five
I am going to have to get out of bed every morning, and live every day with your image etched into my memory … every time I close my eyes I will see your face, every time the room gets so silent you can hear a pin drop your voice will come to me ... every time I blink away the tears, your arms will enclose me ... every time I pray I will send kisses up to heaven for you ... my only wish is that I didn't have to ... live here ... with you there.
I still think of you day in and day out ... I still wake up at night with a cold sweat on my skin from a dream about you ... I still get lost in my thoughts of you ... I still look around when someone calls your name ... I still feel the tears in my eyes when mail comes for you ... I still turn down all the lights at night and cry for you ... only for you.
If only I could hear your voice one more time ... guiding me through ... my shining light ... maybe that would stop my tears...maybe if I could just see your face ... my heart would stop it's grieving ... maybe if I could just let you know I love you ... one more time...that would keep my mind at ease ... maybe if ... I had told you one more time how much you mean to me ... how much I look up to you ... how scared I am going to be without you ... you would haven't had left ... maybe if.
Why do I have to say goodbye why does it have to be her? Why does it have to be now? What am I supposed to learn? That death hurts? I know it does ... I know that it's never going to be the same. I can learn that lesson without losing her, God, please don't take her away. There is not too much in this world that means anything to me right now, but without her I am going to stop caring ... my heart is going to break when hers stops ... and I am not going to be able to go on ... I am not going to be able to smile once she is gone.
It's never going to get easier. There is never going to be a “Death for Dummies” book. There is never going to be an escape plan to pain because no matter how much I try no matter how much I cry my life is never going to go back to the way it used to be, because I know I can't just shut the door to your bedroom and hope everything disappears. I know that I can't stop myself from hoping that you will one day walk in the front door and smile as if nothing happened. I know that there will be days that it will be hard to get out of bed and look people in the eye and lie when they ask how I am. I know that its going to hurt for the rest of my life and that I will always cry, but I also know that you're in heaven now and your away from all of the pain and everything is better for you now. I just wish I could say the same for me.
I always thought that when it rained, it was because angels cried, because they knew someone had passed away. Now I know they don't cry for those who have died, they cry because they feel the pain of those who are left behind.
When you lose someone you love, you gain an angel you know. ~ Oprah Winfrey
You get angry. Death does that. ~ What Dreams May Come
She felt it … felt his death in the emptiness that had spread through her heart. ~ Lovers and Dreamers by Nora Roberts
