Quotes on Thoughts Of Death

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.

How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.

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

The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature; it works on from eternity to eternity, it is like the sun, which though it seems to set to our mortal eyes, does not really set, but shines on perpetually.

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.