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  • When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet: And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget. I shall not see the shadows, I shall not feel the rain; I shall not hear the nightingale Sing on as if in pain: And dreaming through the twilight That doth not rise nor set, Haply I may remember, And haply I may forget.

    Dream   Song   Pain  
    "When I am dead, my dearest" l. 1 (1862)
  • Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

  • They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

    Sympathy   Death   Grief  
    Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.79, Courier Corporation
  • I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!

  • Death is nothing at all; it does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room.

    Sermon in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, 15 May 1910
  • Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.

    "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.
  • Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

    Death   Song   Hero  
    "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.
  • You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life.

    Death   Heart   Secret  
    Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”
  • When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

    Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”
  • So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

    "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.
  • When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me

    "When I am dead, my dearest" l. 1 (1862)
  • Do not go gentle into that good night.

    "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" l. 16 (1952)
  • Listen with your heart, you will understand.

    Song: Listen With Your Heart I
  • How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

    1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 43.
  • The stars are not wanted now, put out every one Pack up the moon & dismantle the sun.

    Stars   Moon   Funeral  
    W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.87, DEBOLS!LLO
  • Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

    "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.
  • If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.

    Death   Heart   Sea  
    Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”
  • Death cannot kill what never dies.

    Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.79, Courier Corporation
  • Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

    Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.128, Lulu.com
  • Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

    Rivers   Silence   Drink  
    Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.128, Lulu.com
  • He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

    Love   Death   Song  
    "Funeral Blues" l. 9 (1936)
  • For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

    Sympathy   Death   Grief  
    Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.126, Lulu.com
  • Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

    "Because I could not stop for death" l. 1 (ca. 1862)
  • Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.

    "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep" l. 15 (1932).
  • Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.

    Death   Dying   Green  
    "When I am dead, my dearest" l. 1 (1862)
  • I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well.

  • Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.

    Lasts   Life Is   Moments  
  • You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heath of life? The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light. If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one. For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?

    Death   Heart   Eye  
    Khalil Gibran, “Death XXVII”
  • Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room.

  • Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust.

    Girl   Death   Dust  
    'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 4, sc. 2, l. 258
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