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Quotes About Transition

Dying is a wild night and a new road.
~ Emily Dickinson
In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.
~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko
I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Liberal hopefulness Regards death as a mere border to an improving picture.
~ William Empson
Death is not a reaper, like they say, nor even a friend. It is a dark, fierce water, an inundation.
~ Unknown
I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.
~ Mark Twain
To a true believer, death is but going to church: from the church below to the church above.
~ Augustus Toplady
I see black light (his last words)
~ Victor Hugo
Death is simply a shedding of the physical body, like the butterfly coming out of a cocoon. . . . It's like putting away your winter coat when spring comes.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio.
~ John Tesh
Let's learn to live! Then there is no death, save the transition, when desired. Many live who have never died as yet.
~ Edgar Cayce
We are witnessing the death of abundance and the borning of austerity, for what may be a long, long time.
~ Bill Gross
I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
~ Felicity Jones
Death is the perfect knowing.
~ Marjorie Holmes
The big change is the proximity to death.
~ Leonard Cohen
Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, When breath blew back, And on the other side I heard recede the disappointed tide!
~ Emily Dickinson
Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.
~ Richard Sibbes
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
~ Henry Fielding
Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.
~ Robert Browning
What came for them? Not death. Just the end of living.
~ Arundhati Roy
I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death.
~ C. S. Lewis
Death is dancing me ragged.
~ Linda Hogan
I regret not death. I am going to meet my friends in another world.
~ Ludovico Ariosto