On Death and Dying - World View

•  . “How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?” – Carson McCullers
• “Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation.” – Albert Einstein
• “Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.” – Unknown
• “Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality…” – Emily Dickinson
• he life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
• “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 tomorrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace.” – Oscar Wilde
• “The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.” – Seneca
• “Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.” – Rabindranath Tagore
• “No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.” – Terry Pratchett
• “For those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.” – Rumi
• “Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.” – George Eliot
• “How people die remains in the memory of those who live on.” – Dame Cicely Saunders
• “I want to be all used up when I die.” – George Bernard Shaw
• “When it’s time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.” – Henry David Thoreau
• “Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.” – Helen Keller
• “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.” – Steve Jobs
• “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
• “I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.” – Corazon Aquino
• “Because life is fragile and death inevitable, we must make the most of each day.” – Thomas S. Monson
• “It’s only 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.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
• Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.” – Socrates
• “Nothing in life is promised except death.” – Kanye West
• “Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• “Many people die at twenty-five and aren’t buried until they are seventy-five.” – Benjamin Franklin
• “Every man dies – not every man really lives.” – William Ross Wallace
• “Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.” – Mark Twain
• “Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.” – Marcus Aurelius
• “When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time.” – Laurie Halse Anderson
• “In the long run, we are all dead.” – John Maynard Keynes
• “Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these, also will vanish with death.” – Ramana Maharshi
• “The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.” – Harriet Beecher-Stowe
• "They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time." – Unknown
• You’re not truly dead until your legacy is no longer felt.
• “The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.” – Robert Southey
• For those who are left behind, death leaves a wound that cannot fully heal.
• “Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
• “A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.” – Gustave Flaubert
• “When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, [who] weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.” – William Tecumseh Sherman
• “Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.” – Andrew Sachs
• “People fear death even more than pain. It’s strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over.” – Jim Morrison
• “It’s funny how most people love the dead; once you’re dead, you’re made for life.” – Jimi Hendrix
• We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” – Criminal Minds
• “True love never dies. Doesn't matter if it's true or not. A man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in.” – Second Hand Lions
• “We live and we die by time, and we must not commit the sin of turning our back on time.” – Cast Away
• “To die will be an awfully big adventure.” – Finding Neverland
• “I'll get all the sleep I need when I'm dead.” – Road House
• “If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.” – The Crow
• “They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.” – St. Augustine
• “He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.” – Matthew Henry
• “Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.” – Buddha
• “Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell." – Henry Ward Beecher
• “One has to die to know exactly what happens after death. Although Catholics have their hopes." – Alfred Hitchcock
• “We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream: It may be so the moment after death.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
• “Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.” – Brennan Manning
• “A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.” – Florence Nightingale
• “When it comes time to die, make sure that all you have to do is die.” – Jim Elliot
• “When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings.” – Sogyal Rinpoche
• “One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." – Friedrich Nietzsche
• "I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail … There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark." – Stephen Hawking
• “From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.” – Thomas Moore
• “A normal human being does not want life after death: He wants life on earth to continue.”  – George Orwell
• “Of course, you don’t die. Nobody dies. Death doesn’t exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world.” – Henry Miller
• “I don’t believe in the afterlife. I believe this is it, and I believe it’s the best way to live.” – Natalie Portman
• “I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.” – Stephen Hawking
• “I know that we’re alive through our offspring. I know that we continue to exist through the earth. Not knowing anything else, I work on the assumption that after death, we go back into the pre-birth phase.” – Ali A. Rizvi
• “There probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful.” – Stephen Hawking
• “I’m not scared of dying, because I’m an atheist. I won’t even know I’m dead. Because I’ll be dead.” – Jim Jeffries
• “It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” Woody Allen
• I'm not afraid of death," she explained to the magazine. "I know where I'm going. I know… the people that I'm gonna see. I think I would be afraid of death if I wasn't a good person. But I am," she said resoundingly.  Shannen Doherty 
• "I am a very spiritual person, so when I have done what I am here for, on this earth for, then that'll be fine," she told People magazine of eventually passing. "But I'm not anywhere near that."  Shannen Doherty