I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love ever….
If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten..
He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death..
But, however many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive..
He whom the gods love dies young, whilst he is full of health, perception, and judgment. [Lat., Quem dii diligunt, Adolescens moritur, dum valet, sen….
Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the gove….
Your skin upon my skin, in the beating of our hearts, may the living let us in, before the dead tear us apart..
When death finally comes you will welcome it like an old friend, being aware of how dreamlike and impermanent the pheneomenal world really is..
Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves..
Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, a shadow on those features fair and thin. And softly, from the hushed and darkened room, two angels issued, ….
We all have to die some day, if we live long enough..
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life..
What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us..
If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying?.
Even if death were to fall upon you today like lightning, you must be ready to die without sadness and regret, without any residue of clinging for wh….
We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end..
Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die..
The way he treated me & the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other & our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than t….
Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. And if I should die before I awake, I pray the popular attend my wake..
...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other availab….
And all winds go sighing For sweet things dying..