All goes onward and outward,
Nothing collapses
And to die is different from what anyone supposed,
and luckier…

- Walt Whitman : Song of Myself

Death has nothing to do with going away.
The sun sets
The moon sets
But they are not gone.

 - Rumi

 "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 humanness.”

- Hermann Broch

In times of grief
and sorrow
flowers bloom
even then

- unknown Japanese poet

"Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home."

- Sir Francis Bacon

"Death invites you to fall in love…it’s the fragility of life that makes you weep with helplessness."

- Rev. Olivia Rose

"Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean."

- David Searls

“When I am gone, only love can take my place.”

- Paramahansa Yogananda

"Show me the manner in which a nation cares for its dead, and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies of the people, their respect for the law of the land and their loyalties to high morals."

- Sir William Gladstone

“We are all just walking each other home.”

- Ram Dass 

"The cave you most fear to enter contains the greatest treasure."

- Joseph Campbell

"Take care with the end
As you do with the beginning."

- Lao Tzu – Tao Te Ching