37 Comforting Quotes on Departure and the Afterlife for Seniors
1. “The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.” – Irving Berlin
2. “A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” – Maya Angelou
3. “Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.” – Sarah Louise Delany
4. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” – Lao Tzu
5. “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” – Norman Cousins
6. “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.” ― Dante Alighieri
7. “I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls.” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
8. “In the midst of death, life persists. In the midst of untruth, truth persists. In the midst of darkness, light persists.” – Mahatma Gandhi
9. “Though lovers be lost, love shall not.” – Dylan Thomas
10. “In life, we weep at the thought of death. In death, perhaps we weep at the thought of life.” – Marilyn Monroe
11. “Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.” – Helen Keller
12. “I joyfully await the exit – and I hope never to return” – Frida Kahlo
13. “Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.” – Ernest Hemingway
14. “Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.” – Emily Dickinson
15. “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” – Kenji Miyazawa, Positively Positive
16. “The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not get over the loss of a loved one; you’ll learn to live with it.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
17. “Analysis of death is not for the sake of becoming fearful but to appreciate this precious lifetime.” – Dalai Lama
18. “There’s a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we’ve left it.” – Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
19. “It’s part of the privilege of being human that we have our moment when we have to say goodbye.” – Patti Smith
20. “Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.” – Rabindranath Tagore
21. “Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.” – Rossiter Worthington Raymond
22. “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” – Mark Twain
23. “Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” – Dylan Thomas
24. “When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine.” – Rumi
25. “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.” – Rumi
26. “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
27. “We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” – Chuck Palahniuk
28. “Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.” – Ernest Hemingway
29. “To die will be an awfully big adventure.” – J.M. Barrie
30. “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.” – Steve Jobs
31. “Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.” – Mitch Albom
32. “The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible and there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.” – Plato
33. “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” – J.K. Rowling
34. “The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.” – Buddha
35. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” – Maya Angelou
36. “For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?” – Kahlil Gibran
37. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama
