Inspirational Quotes About Death

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A Course In Miracles
Spiritual teachings book
Every thought you have makes up some segment of the world you see. It is with your thoughts then, that we must work, if your perception of the world is to be changed.

Give truth its due, and it will give you yours. You were not meant to suffer and to die. Your Father wills these dreams gone. Let truth correct them all.

I am in the likeness of my Creator. I cannot suffer. I cannot experience loss and I cannot die. I am not a body. Love created me like Itself.

If it helps you, think of me holding your hand and leading you. And I assure you this will be no idle fantasy.

A Course In Miracles
Spiritual teachings book
It is impossible to see what you do not believe.

A Course In Miracles
Spiritual teachings book
My peace I give you.

A Course In Miracles
Spiritual teachings book
No one can grieve, nor fear, nor think him sick, unless these are the outcomes that he wants. And no one dies without his consent. Nothing occurs but represents your wish and nothing is omitted that you choose.

The Holy Spirit guides you into life eternal, but you must relinquish your investment in death, or you will not see life, though it is all around you.

The sick are healed as you let go of all thoughts of sickness, and the dead are raised when you let thoughts of life replace all thoughts you ever held of death.

There is no death because what God created shares His life. There is no death because an opposite to God does not exist.

There is nothing the power of God cannot do. Your Holiness, then, can remove all pain, can end all sorrow, and can solve all problems.

A Course In Miracles
Spiritual teachings book
When you are sad know this need not be. Depression comes from a sense of being deprived of something you want and do not have. Remember that you are deprived of nothing except by your own decision and then decide otherwise.

Why wait for Heaven? Those who seek the Light are merely covering their eyes. The Light is in them now. Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all.

A Course In Miracles
Spiritual teachings book
You do not walk alone. God’s angels hover near and all about. His love surrounds you, and of this be sure: that I will never leave you comfortless.

Abraham-Hicks 1948
Channeller, speaker & author
The beast, like all of you, chooses freedom first. And if ever the physical condition becomes less than joyful, the beast, if left to himself, will re-emerge into Non-Physical.

The beginnings and endings that you call birth and death are more about helping you to focus than anything else. But they really are illusions. You are Eternal Beings, and when you re-emerge into Non-Physical, you do not become less-than. You don’t become nebulous, unfocused energy that just swirls around in nothingness. You assume that perspective of All-Knowingness. You remember all that you are, not just the personality that you were.

The grief that you feel is usually about it feeling like an ending. At a level that you don’t even consciously understand, you understand the Eternalness of your Being, and you love this feeling of wanting that continues to summon you forward. When someone makes their transition, what that always means, always, always, always means, no exceptions ever, what it always means is this time/space/reality is no longer producing the stuff that summons them forward here. But, it does not mean that they are not continuing to be summoned forward. They are being summoned by the Broader Knowing.

The more joyful you are, the longer you live.

The reason that you call it ‘grief’ is because you’ve been programmed to believe that you should feel bad about death.

The re-emergence into Source Energy is always a delightful thing.

The timing of your death is always chosen by you.

Abraham-Hicks 1948
Channeller, speaker & author
There are those who feel such fulfilment of life and such Connection to Source Energy, who understand that there is no separation between what is physical and Non-Physical; who understand that there is not even a lapse in consciousness, that ‘death’ is a matter of closing one’s eyes in this dimension and literally opening one’s eyes in the other dimension. And that, truly, is how all death is, no matter how it looks, up to that point.

There is never a reason to feel any grief about the re-emergence. It is a new beginning of extraordinary proportion. It is a goal, it is an objective, it is a knowing that is calling, that is so powerful that there is a joyous romping beyond description. If you could feel the way those Non-Physical Energies feel once they have made their transition and they are re-focused from that broader perspective, having left behind any resistance that has kept this place from being that for them, you would never again feel that for them.

This inevitable thing called death is not a bad thing. We know that you might think we’re biased since we are considered dead!

We think it’s a really interesting thing how you all fall apart at the idea of death, when all of you are going to die.

We think that when someone dies it would be very good right now to begin practising what you know about death: it’s this inevitable new step into a new perspective. It is the continuation of who you are from a more powerful vantage point. It is an awareness of All-That-Is from broader view. It is energy that now still has a clear view of all that is you.

We’re not wanting to be insensitive to what so many of you are feeling, but we are very much wanting you to put this death thing in the proper perspective: You are all going to die! Except there is no death. You’re all going to make your transition into Non-Physical. It is time to stop making your transition into Non-Physical sound like a subject that is uncomfortable and begin acknowledging that it is something that happens to everyone. This death thing is so misunderstood.

When you croak, no matter how resistant you’ve been to who you are… we like that word too: croak, it’s so disrespectful, and since there is no death we like to be as disrespectful of that ridiculous ideas as we can. So, when you croak, you re-emerge immediately back into the awareness of Who You Really Are, and you leave behind any resistant patterns that you’ve picked up along this physical trail. So croaking is the true epitome of blending. You come back together with Who You Are.

When you show yourself that you can return to joy under those conditions [grieving] there is never, ever, ever again anything for you to fear.

You are Eternal Beings, in other words, you walk into this room, you all come willingly and yet you have not committed your life to being in this room. In a few hours you’re going to get up and you’re going to walk out of here and everybody’s going to say that’s just fine.

And when somebody makes their transition, which is no different from that - they just withdraw their attention from one room and give their attention to another room - you all act like it’s the end of the world.

You are Source Energy that had something in mind when you made the decision to come forth into this physical body. None of you said, “I will go forth and stay in this body for hundreds of years.” Very often your intention was to come forth, make a big splash, have a lot of fun, and then make another decisions. Physical beings have turned this amount of life into an issue. You cannot evaluate quality of life by the quantity.

Louisa May Alcott 1832-1888
American novelist & poet
I think immortality is the passing of a soul through many lives or experiences, and such as are truly lived, used and learned, help on to the next, each growing richer, happier and higher, carrying with it only the real memories of what has gone before.

Sri Aurobindo 1872-1950
Indian philosopher, yogi & poet
The first and the most important thing is to know that life is one and immortal. Only the forms, countless in number, are transient and brittle. The life everlasting is independent of any form but manifests itself in all forms. Life then does not die.. But the forms are dissolved.

St Teresa of Avila 1515-1582
Spanish Carmelite nun
The hour I have long wished for is now come. (her final words)

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Richard Bach 1936
American author & writer
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Francis Bacon 1561-1626
English philosopher, essayist & statesman
It is as natural to die, as to be born.

James Matthew Barrie 1860-1937
Scottish novelist & playwright
To die will be an awfully big adventure.

Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887
American congregationalist clergyman
We go to the grave of a friend saying “A man is dead.”
But angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”

Ludwig van Beethoven 1770-1827
German composer & pianist
I shall hear in heaven. (his final words)

Irving Berlin 1888-1989
American composer & songwriter
The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.

Bhagavad Gita
Hindu scriptures book
As a man leaves an old garment and puts on one that is new, the Spirit leaves his mortal body and wanders on to one that is new.

Bhagavad Gita
Hindu scriptures book
For beyond time he dwells in these bodies, though these bodies have an end in their time; but he remains immeasurable immortal.

He is never born, and he never dies. He is in Eternity: he is evermore. Never-born and eternal, beyond times gone or to come, he does not die when the body dies.

Invisible before birth are all beings and after death invisible again. They are seen between two unseen, why in this truth find sorrow?

Bhagavad Gita
Hindu scriptures book
Invisible is he to mortal eyes, beyond thought and beyond change. Know that he is and cease to sorrow.

The Spirit is beyond destruction. No one can bring to an end the Spirit which is everlasting.

Bible
Christian scriptures book
Come to me, all who labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.

God is our refuge and strength, an ever present help in trouble.

Lord, when doubts fill my mind, when my heart is in turmoil, quiet me and give me renewed hope.

Set me as a seal upon your heart. As a ring upon your arm. For love is as strong as death. It’s flashes are flashes of fire. A flame of the Eternal.

The Lord is close to the broken hearted and saves those who are crushed in Spirit.

Black Elk 1863-1950
Native American of Oglala Lakota tribe
It is good to have a reminder of death before us, for it helps us to understand the impermanence of life on this Earth, and this understanding may aid us in preparing for our own death. He who is well prepared is he who knows that he is nothing compared with Wakan-Tanka, who is everything; then he knows that world which is real.

William Blake 1757-1827
English poet & painter
I am going to that country which I have all my life wished to see.

Erma Bombeck 1927-1996
American humorist & author
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, “I used everything you gave me.”

Robert Brault
American author & philosopher
Sometimes in tragedy we find our life’s purpose..
The eye sheds a tear to find its focus.

Pam Brown 1948
Australian poet
Loss leaves us empty,but learn not to close your heart and mind in grief. Allow life to replenish you. When sorrow comes it seems impossible, but new joys wait to fill the void.

Robert Browning 1812-1889
English poet & playwright
My sun sets to rise again.

Gertrude Tooley Buckingham 1880-1971
American poet
My prayer is that many of the poems in this book may help to bring joy and peace and understanding to those souls who may be grieving for loved ones whom they call ‘dead’ but who, in reality, are still living in a real world of beauty, being able to manifest to their dear ones of earth when the door is opened for them to come in.

There’s one gift, dear Father, which I have received
That has kept despair from my heart when I’ve grieved
‘Tis knowledge that loved ones, when they’ve been called home
Do not go far away, I’m never alone

Buddha 624BC-543BC
Spiritual leader & founder of Buddhism
Everything that has a beginning has an end. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

Samuel Butler 1835-1902
English novelist & critic
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

Lorna Byrne 1953
Irish author
The sadness and pain surrounding the death of a parent, brother or sister, can bring with it an unexpected gift, and help families to become closer. It can help bring shared memories to light, and be a reminder of love that was shared in the past.

Lord Byron 1788-1824
English poet & peer
Death, so called is a thing which makes men weep. And yet, a third of life is passed in sleep.

The dew of compassion is.. A tear.

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Anna Carey 1975
Irish author
Love was death’s only adversary, the only thing powerful enough to combat its clawing, desperate grasp.

Kristine Carlson 1963
American author
Love is truly eternal and lasts forever. It is the core of our connection and expression of life.

Rosanne Cash 1955
American singer-songwriter & author
When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they’re still coming.

Marcus Tullius Cicero 106BC-43BC
Italian poet, philosopher & orator
Friends, thought absent, are still present.

Chief Crowfoot 1830-1890
Native American Chief of Blackfoot tribe
A little while and I will be gone from among you, when I cannot tell. From nowhere we came, into nowhere we go.
What is life?
It is the flash of 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.

Anna Cummins
Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones. Speak them rather now instead.

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Emily Dickinson 1830-1886
American poet
Unable are the loved to die.. For love is immortality.

Wayne Dyer 1940-2015
American author & motivational speaker
Choose to see death as simply removing a garment or moving from one room to another.. It’s merely a transition.

Wayne Dyer 1940-2015
American author & motivational speaker
Eternity is now. Right now, right here, you’re an infinite being. Once you get past the fear of death as an end, you merge with the infinite and feel the comfort and relief that this realization brings.

Even though our rational mind has been trained to believe that when a person dies his spirit is gone, the truth is that the spirit does not die, it simply changes form. Your spirit can’t die because it has no boundaries, no beginning and no end.

I have a suit in my closet with the pocket cut out. It’s a reminder to me that I won’t be taking anything with me. The last I wear won’t need any pockets.

Opening to the power of intention, you begin knowing that conception, birth and death are all natural aspects of the energy field of creation.

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Thomas Edison 1847-1931
American inventor & businessman
It is very beautiful over there. (final words)

Albert Einstein 1879-1955
German-American scientist
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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882
American essayist & lecturer
It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882
American essayist & lecturer
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short. But when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say, we have had our day.

Euripides 480BC-406BC
Ancient Greek tragedian
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

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Federation Of Light-Blossom Goodchild
English channeller & author
Life continues on forever and ever, whether or not you are ‘dead or alive’ upon your particular Planet!

Jean de la Fontaine 1621-1695
French fabulist & poet
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Charles Frohman 1856-1915
American theater manager & producer
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.

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John Gay 1685-1732
English poet & dramatist
We only part to meet again.

Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931
Lebanese-American writer & poet
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing? But to free the breath fro its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God, unencumbered.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And the Earth shall claim your limbs. Then shall you truly dance.

Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931
Lebanese-American writer & poet
He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.

I want to see written on my grave: I am alive like you, and I am standing beside you. Close your eyes and look around, you will see me in front of you. (Written next to his grave)

If the ignorant say to you that the Soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain. This is the law of God.

Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931
Lebanese-American writer & poet
Life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. In the depths of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond; and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931
Lebanese-American writer & poet
Love knows not its depth till the hour of separation.

Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931
Lebanese-American writer & poet
Love, like death, changes everything.

Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931
Lebanese-American writer & poet
We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet
All of us one day will make the journey back, leaving our bodies, no clothes to pack, They’ll be rejoicing from many in Heaven when, we only part to meet again.

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet
Everything that has a beginning has an end,
Make your peace with that and all will be well.

The Buddha’s words are an essential principle of life,
To enable us, when the time comes to say: “Farewell.”

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet
Have an uplifted open mind, and I’ll be there
The Energy of Love means we can share
Think of what to say to me, and you will find
I can talk to you through the thoughts in your mind.

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet
I sense the Spirit of their Loved one, they block the energy by thinking them gone.
My leaves whisper the truth on the breeze, “They are beside you, they do live on.”

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet
I will leave my overcoat behind
No use to me anymore because I’ll find
Expansion, freedom, unlimited Love
When my Spirit is released to the above

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet
I will lovingly think of them often, but continue
With my own life, knowing each and every day
They are experiencing an awesome adventure
Now young at heart, they can relax and play

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet
If we could just learn to Love as God, Unconditionally to all,
We would know the answers to life and death, The veil to all knowledge would fall.

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet
If you’re needing help in any way to keep yourself positive,
reach for a thought that feels better, is the best advice anyone can give.

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet
Just because we cannot see them doesn’t mean they are not there,
Our thoughts of Love bind us together, all the treasured memories we share.

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet
Love is eternal, the greatest of bond, forever we’re linked to those we are fond.

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet
Love is the greatest blessing to give and to receive,
Above all else it is the one true gift that survives us when we leave.

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet
No matter the plane of existence, On Earth, in Spirit, or outer space,
We are all united and connected, through Source Energy we all trace.

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet
Often it takes a hard knock to open our Path’s true door,
Disease, break-up, death, can Awaken us to much more.

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet
One day my body will cease to be, but I know that’s not the end of me,
I’ll be aware when my passing is nigh, I shall not altogether die.

quote from poem: I Shall Not Altogether Die

Our Loved ones are not far away, although it can be hard to believe
Just reach out with your thoughts and Love, and be open for the gifts you’ll receive

Love is eternal, it never dies, when we pass, it’s all we can take
The Love we share is never lost, the bond will never break

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet
Over there time is not measured, there are no limits to believe,
We are One, always together, there is no reason to grieve.

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet
There are even many family members who we never met in this present life, they passed over before our day of birth, but watch over us through trouble and strife.
We shall not die alone.. past generations will support us home.

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet
When my time comes to leave, I really do, truly believe, the goodbyes may be hard, but then... We only part to meet again.

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet
Why is it we all grieve when someone passes on?
We’re just not connected to our truth, when we believe that they are gone.

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet
Your body is not the real you, you are so much more that what you can see,
For the real truth is quite simply, you are a physical extension of Source Energy.

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Thich Nhat Hanh 1926-2022
Vietnamese monk & peace activist
I asked the leaf whether it was frightened because it was autumn and the other leaves were falling. The leaf told me, “No. During the whole spring and summer I was completely alive. I worked hard to help nourish the tree, and now much of me is in the tree. I am not limited by this form. I am also the whole tree, and when I go back to the soil, I will continue to nourish the tree. So I don’t worry at all. As I leave this branch and float to the ground, I will wave to the tree and tell her, ‘I will see you again very soon.’”

That day there was a wind blowing and, after a while, I saw the leaf leave the branch and float down to the soil, dancing joyfully, because as it floated it saw itself already there in the tree. It was so happy. I bowed my head, knowing that I have a lot to learn from the leaf because it is not afraid - it knew nothing can be born and nothing can die.

Let us not be afraid of decreasing. It is like the moon, we see the moon increasing and decreasing, but it is always the moon.

Jimi Hendrix 1942-1970
American guitarist & singer-songwriter
I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

Esther Hicks 1948
Channeller & author
The greatest gift Jerry (her husband) gave me was by presenting to me a condition over which I had no control.. his transition.

Horace 65BC-8BC
Roman lyric poet
I shall not altogether die.

Cardinal Basil Hume 1923-1999
English Catholic bishop
Soon after you’re dead - we’re not sure how long - but not long, you’ll be united with the most ecstatic love you’ve ever known. As one of the best things in your life was human love, this will be love, but much more satisfying, and it will last forever.

Gloria Hunniford 1940
British television & radio presenter
People never die if they live on the lips of the living.

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Margaret Storm Jameson 1891-1986
English journalist & author
Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.

One of the uncovenanted benefits of living for a long time is that, having so many more dead than living friends, death can appear as a step backwards into the joyous past.

We do not remember people as they were. What we remember is the effect they had on us then, but we remember it through an emotion charged with all that has since happened to us.

Chris Jones
Grief tells our hearts things like, ‘How can I possibly find joy again when so much was lost?’ Gratitude responds softly, ‘Yes, it hurts, but what a blessing it was, even if only a short time.

Carl Jung 1875-1961
Swiss psychiatrist, psychologist & author
What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even an approximate conception of it. The dissolution of our time-bound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning.

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John F. Kennedy 1917-1963
35th President of United States
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.

Gary Kinnaman 1949
Pastor & author
Heaven comes to people - and their loved ones - when they are dying. It is not uncommon for angels to appear when people are on the edge of death, and people who have had near-death experiences often describe feelings of indescribable peace.. Angels.

Jack Kornfield 1945
American Buddhist monk, writer & teacher
At the end of life, our questions are very simple.. Did I live fully? Did I love well?

Jack Kornfield 1945
American Buddhist monk, writer & teacher
In the end, just three things matter… how well we have lived. How well we have loved. How well we have learned to let go.

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross 1926-2004
Swiss-American psychiatrist & author
It is 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, that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

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