End of Life Quotes: Finding Comfort and Reflection

Life begins like a dream, becomes a little real, and ends like a dream. – Michael Bassey Johnson

It’s not what you have at the end of life, it’s what you leave behind that matters. – Stedman Graham

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln

Only the dead have seen the end of war. – Plato

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story. – Frank Herbert

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell. – Henry Ward Beecher

Things change. And friends leave. And life doesn’t stop for anybody. – Stephen Chbosky

I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to. – Jimi Hendrix

Sometimes when you lose your way in the fog, you end up in a beautiful place! Don’t be afraid of getting lost! – Mehmet Murat Ildan

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. – THOMAS CAMPBELL

Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. – The Wonder Years

People living deeply have no fear of death. – ANAIS NIN

This could mark the beginning of a significant era in your life.

Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers – Kurt Vonnegut Jr

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln

It’s not what you have at the end of life, it’s what you leave behind that matters. – Stedman Graham

Don’t cry because it’s over smile because it happened. – Dr. Seuss

Build your life on your dreams; because dreams never have bad endings. – M.F. Moonzajer

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave. – Horace

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. – Truman Capote

Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect. – Margaret Mitchell

Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. – J.K. Rowling

Her every memory strikes like cold air and freeze me at that moment

The one who gave me life is gone; I have never before felt so lost and alone.

Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard. – David Levithan

When your life flashes before your eyes at the end, make sure it’s a good movie you’re watching. – Stewart Stafford

Sadness flies away on the wings of time. – Jean de La Fontaine

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them – George Eliot

Tears are words that need to be written. – Paulo Coelho

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. – Kahlil Gibran

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. – Mark Twain

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying. – Charlie Chaplin

You still make me smile, even if you’re the reason why I’m sad. – Zakiya And Majid

He is broken by one and it makes him hate everyone.

Read my lips, I’ve told you a lie, I said ‘I’m fine.’ but look in my eyes, ‘I want to die.’ – J.M.K.

Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers. – Kurt Vonnegut

Don’t cry over someone who wouldn’t cry over you. – Lauren Conrad

It is natural to die as to be born – Francis Bacon

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. – Khalil Gibran

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness. – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. – Truman Capote

There are years that ask questions and years that answer. – Zora Neale Hurston

When you’re happy you enjoy the music, but when you’re sad you understand the lyrics. – Frank Ocean

I hate myself, and I want to die. – Kurt Cobain

We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim. – R.M. Drake

Nothing in life is promised except death – Kanye West

Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today. – James Dean

When your life flashes before your eyes at the end, make sure it’s a good movie you’re watching. – Stewart Stafford

The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective. – James Patterson

Life’s just a bunch of accidents, connected by one perfect end. – Daniel C. Tomas

No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear. – C.S Lewis

Our story may have any number of endings but its start is a singular choice we make today. – Faisal Khosa

Dying is a wild night and a new road. – Emily Dickinson

Life is stressful, dear. That’s why they say “Rest In Peace. – David Mazzucchelli

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet. – Emily Dickinson

Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved. – Jean Cameron

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid. – LANGSTON HUGHES

Reflection is one of the most underused yet powerful tools for success. – Richard Carlson

We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it. – Lauryn Hill

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. – Robert Louis Stevenson

We need to reframe end-of-life conversations as acts of love. – Judith Henry

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life. – Albert Einstein

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. – Robert Louis Stevenson

We don’t always get to say proper goodbyes – live every day like it’s your last.

Remembering is an act of resurrection, each repetition a vital layer of mourning, in memory of those we are sure to meet again. – NANCY COBB

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan

To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die. – Thomas Campbell

Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens. – John Scalzi

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. – Mae West

Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved. – Jean Cameron

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time. It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other. – Leo Buscaglia

Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity. – Mother Teresa

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. – Mary Catherine Bateson

Life after death is spent in a vibrant and colorful world.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. – Madame de Staël

Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead. – Hans Christian Andersen

In the planning stage of a book, don’t plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it. – Rose Tremain

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again. – Joseph Campbell

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream: it may be so the moment after death. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. – Rabindranath Tagore

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. – Thomas Campbell

Death is not the end of life; it is the beginning of an eternal journey. – Debasish Mridha