Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back. Marcus Aurelius
It is as natural to die as it is to be born. Francis Bacon
There is love in holding and there is love in letting go. Elizabeth Berg
These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us. Swami Vivekananda
It is necessary to be strong in the face of death, because death is intrinsic to life. It is for this reason that I tell my students: aim to be the person at your father’s funeral that everyone, in their grief and misery, can rely on. There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity. Jordan Peterson (12 Rules for Life)
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. W. Somerset Maugham
And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment. Bodhidharma
Do you see the gift that you had? Do you see how lucky you were? Maxime Lagacé
There is no birth, there is no death; there is no coming, there is no going; there is no same, there is no different; there is no permanent self, there is no annihilation. We only think there is. Thich Nhat Hahn
Everyone we cherish will, someday, get sick and die. If we do not practice the meditation on emptiness, when those things happen, we will be overwhelmed. Concentration on emptiness is a way of staying in touch with life as it is, but it has to be practiced, not just talked about. Thich Nhat Hahn
Happiness can exist only in acceptance. George Orwell
Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you’re free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in. Saul Alinsky
We must constantly remind ourselves that we are eternity, infinite, beyond birth and death. Frederick Lenz
For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths! Edgar Allan Poe
The only real ending is death. Everything else is a transition. Robert Greene
Preparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do. Thinking about death clarifies your life. Candy Chang
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance. Nathaniel Branden
Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified. Alan Watts
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying. Martin Luther
If you are mindful of death, it will not come as a surprise-you will not be anxious. You will feel that death is merely like changing clothes. Consequently, at that point you will be able to maintain your calmness of mind. 14th Dalai Lama
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man’s-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again. Pema Chödrön
Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact we have no fear of death anymore, and we have no actual difficulty in our life. Shunryu Suzuki
When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn’t. Ram Dass
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. Michael J. Fox
The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you. Stephanie Perkins
Death is life’s high meed. John Keats
Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest, as the means that accommodates human life with a soft and easy tranquillity, and gives us a pure and pleasant taste of living, without which all other pleasure would be extinct. Michel de Montaigne
We should always, as near as we can, be booted and spurred, and ready to go, and, above all things, take care, at that time, to have no business with any one but one’s self. Why for so short a life tease ourselves with so many projects? Michel de Montaigne
Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love… Rainer Maria Rilke
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Friedrich Nietzsche
And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death. Walt Whitman
What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying. Albert Camus
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome. Isaac Asimov
