Emily Dickinson Quotes

The exact time of death, I think, is not something that matters so much at this moment for we will be reliving John Paul's life for many days and weeks and even years and decades and centuries to come.

Pray for the dead, and fight like hell for the living.

I had a choice whether to live or die, and I chose to live.

To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life--there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death.

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

TO THOSE WHO WOULD USE INTELLIGENCE IN THE BATTLE AGAINST DEATH - TO STRENGTHEN THE WILL TO LIVE AGAINST THE WISH TO DIE, AND TO REPLACE WITH LOVE THE BLIND COMPULSION TO GIVE HOSTAGES TO HATRED AS THE PRICE OF LIVING.

When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.

Life is stronger than death.

Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.

I like to think of my shining tombstone. It gives me, as you might say, something to live for.

I didn’t go up there to die. I went up there to live.

When you die, that does not mean that you lose to cancer.

When I die, I want it to say 'Short and Funny' on my tombstone.

When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

I write about living, not dying.

A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.

I think when you think of death as being part of the life cycle and recognize that death is an inevitability for our species because the world has to be renewed with each death, then the hope becomes when it is renewed it will be renewed by people on whom I have had some influence for good.

The good thing that may yet happen during dying is not the possibility of survival when we're beyond that point. The good thing that may yet happen is that our lives will have great meaning for those we leave behind.

I've dealt with losing close ones before, and I've been around friends that have lost friends at a young age. I think it's important to think about - not necessarily death, but about life and think about where you're going and how you want to be remembered and the legacy you want to leave.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.

I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.