Inspirational Death Quotes 

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Philip Larkin 1922-1985
English poet, novelist & librarian
What will survive of us is.. Love.

D. H. Lawrence 1885-1930
English novelist, poet & playwright
The dead don’t die. They look on and help.

John Lennon 1940-1980
English singer-songwriter & musician of The Beatles
I’m not afraid of death because I don’t believe in it.
It’s just getting out of one car and into another.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729-1781
German philosopher & writer
It is not I who die, when I die, but my sin and misery.

C. S. Lewis 1898-1963
British author & Anglican lay theologian
There are far, far better things ahead, than any we leave behind.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807-1882
American poet & educator
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

Rosamund Lupton 1964
English author
Grief is.. Love turned into an eternal missing.

Time stops making any sense, when someone you love has died.

Howard Lyman 1938
American farmer & animal rights activist
Do what you can do. As well as you can do it, every day of your life and you will end up dying one of the happiest individuals that had ever died.

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Gobind Singh Mansukhani 1915-1993
Educationist & scholar of Sikhism
Death is nothing but a gateway to Divinity and Eternity.

W. Somerset Maugham 1874-1965
English novelist & playwright
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

John L. McCreery 1835-1906
American poet
There is no death, the stars go down
To rise upon some other shore
And bright in heaven’s jewelled crown
They shine forever more

Ashley Montagu 1905-1999
British-American anthropologist
The idea is to die young as late as possible.

St Thomas More 1478-1535
English Lord High Chancellor
Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

Pray for me, as I will for thee, that we may merrily meet in Heaven.

Movie – The Martian (2015)
Dying is something big and beautiful and greater than me.

Movie – The NeverEnding Story (1984)
Nothing is lost… Everything is transformed.

Movie – What Dreams May Come (1998)
A whole human life is just a heartbeat here in Heaven.
Then we’ll all be together forever.

Max Muller 1823-1900
German philologist & orientalist
I know well there is no comfort for this pain of parting. The wound always remains, but one learns to bear the pain, and learns to thank God for what he gave. For the beautiful memories of the past, and the yet more beautiful hope for the future.

Robert Muller 1923-2010
Belgian author & assistant secretary-general of United Nations
Believe in the immortality and everlasting effects of your goodness.

Robert Muller 1923-2010
Belgian author & assistant secretary-general of United Nations
Dying persons should leave a message to the living and tell them how they could better live. For it is at the moment of losing something that one appreciates its full value.

Humans will not admire my bank account after my death, but they might admire me for the person I was, for my writings, my achievements, my efforts, the messages I left.

I will spend my afterlife as a spiritual being, working for peace and happiness on Earth. Like St. Therese, I pledge to spend my Heaven doing good on Earth.

The end of our journey is not calvary and death, but Heaven and resurrection.

To those who see this world as part of God’s Creation, death will come naturally and gently.

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Native American – Blackfoot
Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way.

Native American – Cherokee
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Native American – Comanche
All who have died are equal.

Native American – Tuscarora
They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind.

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Mary Oliver 1935-2019
American poet & author
Maybe death isn’t darkness after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us.

Mary Oliver 1935-2019
American poet & author
When it’s over, I want to say.. “All my life I was a bride married to Amazement.”

Frederic Ozanam 1813-1853
French Catholic scholar, lawyer & journalist
Peace of heart - without it, no good can make us happy. With it, every trial, even the approach of death, can be borne.

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Blaise Pascal 1623-1662
French mathematician, physicist, philosopher & writer
We shall not die alone.

George S. Patton 1885-1945
American general in United States Army
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the man who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993
American Protestant clergyman & author
I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death - this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start with death. We are eternal now.

Pericles 495BC-429BC
Greek politician & general
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Raoul Plus 1882-1958
French Jesuit priest & author
Death is only a level crossing from one life to another, from life in its beginnings to life in full achievements. From this incomplete life to that transformed one.

Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849
American writer, poet & editor
The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends and where the other begins.

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Osho Rajneesh 1931-1990
Indian philosopher & guru
Death is the greatest illusion of all.

Osho Rajneesh 1931-1990
Indian philosopher & guru
Paradise is not somewhere else.. It is within you.
And it is not in some other time, after death.. It is in you right now.

Ruth E. Renkel
Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.

Grantland Rice 1880-1954
American sportswriter
When the One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, he marks not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.

Jean Paul Richter 1763-1825
German author
Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.

James Whitcomb Riley 1849-1916
American author & poet
Out Of Reach
You think them ‘out of reach’ your dead?
Nay, by my own dead, I deny
Your ‘out of reach’ be comforted
‘Tis not so far to die

O by their dear remembered smiles
And out-held hands and welcoming speech
They wait for us, thousands of miles
This side of ‘out of reach’

Rumi 1207-1273
Afghan Sufi mystic & poet
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 1207-1273
Afghan Sufi mystic & poet
What comes will go. What is found, will be lost again.
But, what you are is beyond coming and going and beyond description. You are it.

What strikes the oyster does not damage the pearl.

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery 1900-1944
French writer, poet & journalist
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay more present than the living man.

Chief Seattle 1780-1866
Native American Chief of Duwamish & Suquamish tribe
There is no death, only a change of worlds.

Betty Shine 1929-2002
English spiritualist, author & healer
Countless people close to death have conversed with spirit people who were waiting to accompany them on their journey. The joy on their faces when they have recognized their loved ones is indescribable. This phenomenon happens far too often to be ignored or passed off as the fantasy of a dying person.

Death is far from being the end. It is a birth into a new kind of life, and into further spiritual progress.

Dying can be a joyful and even exciting experience, and there really is nothing to fear. When we die, we are taken care of, there have been many accounts by people who have had near-death experiences, describing how they travelled down a tunnel at the end of which they came to a bright light and were greeted by someone who loved them.

Dying is very like being born.

In both this dimension and the next, we learn lessons which help us to progress. Most of us go through many reincarnations, each one with a specific purpose. As we progress through numerous journeys of enlightenment our spirituality hopefully increases, and as the mind expands the mind energy becomes finer and finer.

No one is ever the same after a near-death experience. A new spirituality enters the very substance of their being, and their thought processes change totally.

There is no such thing as death. We have all lived before and we are all going to experience new lives.

What is most important to my spiritual beliefs is the certainty that we continue living after death. Like all forms of energy, mind energy is indestructible; therefore the mind cannot die. Only the brain, which is matter, dies. I have seen mind energy leaving the dying, and I am convinced that this is the part of them that lives on - the spirit in fact.

Michael Singer 1947
American author, speaker & journalist
It is truly a great cosmic paradox that one of the best teachers in all of life turns out to be death. No person or situation could ever teach you as much as death has to teach you.

While someone could tell you that you are not your body, death shows you. While someone could remind you of the insignificance of the things that you cling to, death takes them all away in a second. While people can teach you that men and women of all races are equal and that there is no difference between the rich and the poor, death instantly makes us all the same.

Robert Southey 1774-1843
English poet
The grave is but the threshold of eternity.

Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1894
Scottish novelist & essayist
If this is death, it is easier than life. (his final words)

Tom Stoppard 1937
Czech-British playwright & screenwriter
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

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Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1941
Indian poet, writer, composer & philosopher
Death is not extinguishing the light, it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come

Mother Teresa 1910-1997
Albanian-Indian Catholic nun
I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, He will not ask, “How many good things have you done in your life?” Rather He will ask, “How much love did you put into what you did?”

TV – Good Witch (2015-2021)
We all live on in the differences we make.

Lao Tzu 600BC
Ancient Chinese philosopher
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, thre is nothing you cannot achieve.

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Toots Venables
Love is the greatest link that we have with those who have temporarily left us.

Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519
Italian artist, scientist & inventor
As well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well-spent brings happy death.

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William Ross Wallace 1819-1881
American poet
Every man dies..not every man really lives.

J. Neville Ward
Death does not kill love; in some ways it deepens it.

Alan Watts 1915-1973
English writer, philosopher & lecturer
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1850-1919
American author & poet
And so for me there is no sting of death
And so the grave has lost its victory
It is but crossing-with abated breath
And white, set face-a little strip of sea
To find the loves ones waiting on the shore
More beautiful, more precious than before

Thornton Wilder 1897-1975
American playwright & novelist
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love… the only survival, the only meaning.

Anthony Douglas Williams 1953
Canadian spiritualist, writer & author
There are no limits to the amount of love and wisdom one can take to heaven.

Robin Williams 1951-2014
American actor & comedian
May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest, sweet prince. (talking about Christopher Reeve)

Joseph B. Wirthlin 1917-2008
American business man & LDS Elder
The dial on the wheel of sorrow eventually points to each of us. At one time or another, everyone must experience sorrow. No one is exempt. Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering and sorrow is part of our on-the-job training. These experiences, while often difficult to bear at the time, are precisely the kinds of experiences that stretch our understanding, build our character and increase our compassion for others.

William Wordsworth 1770-1850
English poet
Memories.. Images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.

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Hans Zimmer 1957
German film score composer & music producer
My father died when I was a child, and I escaped somehow into the music and music has been my best friend.

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