Inspirational Quotes for Grief, Death & Dying

Inspirational Quotes to help you heal, to inspire, and comfort.


"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had."

~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross


"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."

~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross


"People living deeply have no fear of death."

~Anais Nin


"One often calms one's grief by recounting it."

~Pierre Corneille


"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."

~Norman Cousins


"A useless life is an early death."

~Johann W. von Goethe


"The only cure for grief is action."

~George Henry Lewes


"Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust."

~Margery Allingham


"Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."

~The Rumi


"To not think of dying, is to not think of living."

~Jann Arden


"Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now."

~Charlotte Perkins Gilman


"I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another kind of reality."

~Raymond Moody


"Every mortal loss is an immortal gain."

~William Blake


"The happiness of the drop is to die in the river."

~Al-Ghazali

"The grave is but a covered bridge Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!"

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


"Oh, write of me, not 'Died in bitter pains,' But 'Emigrated to another star!' "

~Helen Hunt Jackson


"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."

~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross


"For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death -- the only certainty that life holds for us -- must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life."

~Stanislav Grof


"The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."

~Voltaire


"For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep."

~George Santayana


"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live you life in a manner so that when you die the world cries and you rejoice."

~Native American Proverb


"Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names."

~The Bible


"No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humaneness."

~Hermann Broch

"Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other."