Poems About Death and Inspirational Death Quotes for Grieving and Healing

Death is nothing at all.
I have only slipped away to the next room.
I am I and you are you.
Whatever we were to each other,
That, we still are.

Call me by my old familiar name.
Speak to me in the easy way
which you always used.
Put no difference into your tone.
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.

Laugh as we always laughed
at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me. Pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word
that it always was.
Let it be spoken without effect.
Without the trace of a shadow on it.

Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same that it ever was.
There is absolute unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind
because I am out of sight?

I am but waiting for you.
For an interval.
Somewhere. Very near.
Just around the corner.

All is well.

Death Poem by Henry Scott Holland ~ 1847-1918
Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral ~ London. UK

1. Life is eternal and love is immortal; And death is only a horizon, And a horizon is
nothing save the limit of our sight. - Rossiter W. Raymond
2. Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can
steal. ~From a headstone in Ireland
3. God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled.
~Unknown
4. God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.
~John Donne
5. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.
~Leonardo da Vinci
6. Death ends a life, not a relationship. - Jack Lemmon
7. Love is stronger than death even though it can't stop death from happening, but
no matter how hard death tries it can't separate people from love. It can't take
away our memories either. In the end, life is stronger than death. - Unknown
8. Thinking and talking about death need not be morbid; they may be quite the
opposite. Ignorance and fear of death overshadow life, while knowing and
accepting death erases this shadow. - Lily Pincus
9. I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than
history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over
experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death. - Robert
Fulghum
10. To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die. -Thomas Campbell
11. There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we
don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have
to let go. ~Author Unknown
12. When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a
treasure. ~Author Unknown
13. Tears are the silent language of grief. -Voltaire
14. There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of
power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are
messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love. --Washington Irving
15. No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. --C.S. Lewis
16. The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief - But the pain of grief is
only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love. --Hilary
Stanton Zunin
17. He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it. --Turkish Proverb
18. After desolation, grief brings back our humanity. --Mason Cooley