Quotes on Dealing With Death

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

I asked my mum, who's a very clever psychotherapist, and she says that kids love stories about death; they need it, they need to have stories that deal with death and explain it, as a place to put their fears.

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.

The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

All of us have to deal with death at one time or another, but to have in one's heart a solid conviction concerning the reality of eternal life is to bring a sense of peace in an hour of tragedy that can come from no other source under the heavens

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Has it ever occurred to you that how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life?

Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.

When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... It's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.

You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life. We will do all we can not only to help you die peacefully, but also to live until you die.