Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no death the way we understood it. The body dies, but not the soul. ”

It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss. ”

Death is not painful. It is the most beautiful experience you will have. ”

Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life. ”

I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear. ”

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. ”

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death. ”

Death is staring too long into the burning sun and the relief of entering a cool, dark room. ”

When we grow older and begin to realize that our omnipotence is really not so omnipotent, that our strongest wishes are not powerful enough to make the impossible possible, the fear that we have contributed to the death of a loved one diminishes - and with it, the guilt. ”

People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist. ”