Quotations: Death & Bereavement
Watching over us
and protecting us
with his angel's wings
- FTD Customer
In my end is my beginning.
- T.S.Eliot, Four Quartets
Those who live in the Lord never see each other for the last time.
- FTD customer
Only time moves on to the next scene. Memory remains part of the heart forever.
- FTD customer
And He will wipe out every tear from their eyes and death will be no more.
- Revelations 21:4
The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
- Wallace Stevens, American poet
Death is not the last sleep. It is the final awakening.
- Walter Scott, Scottish novelist
Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.
-Oscar Wilde, English writer
Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
-Thomas Moore, English theologian
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese Proverb
In eternity everything is just beginning.
- Elias Canetti, Bulgarian author
Into each life some rain must fall.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
- Crowfoot, Blackfoot warior and orator, 1890
Life is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
- Crowfoot, Blackfoot warior and orator, 1890
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. - John Allston
It isn't life that matters! It's the courage you bring to it.
- Sir Hugh Walpole
The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them.
- Bible, Wisdom of Solomon
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.
- Bible, Ecclesiastes
God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity.
- Bible, The Wisdom of Solomon
The journey is the reward.
Chinese Proverb
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
- Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
Brief is life but love is long.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet
It is a far far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
- Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
- Sophocles
Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
- Hans Christian Anderson
He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.
- William Shakespeare
Death is just a beginning of another life.
- Upa. Surya Dharma Win Ong & FTD customer
Joy shared is twice the joy.
Sorrow shared is half the sorrow.
- Unknown
May God hold you in the palm of his hand.
- Irish blessing
Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.