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Quotes About Transition

To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady; She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.
~ Walter Savage Landor
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!
~ Felicia Hemans
Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.
~ Grace Slick
We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.
~ Victor Hugo
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.
~ James Montgomery
Though Death be poor, it ends a mortal woe.
~ William Shakespeare
Death is not the end, but a more glorified existence.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
To the Christian death is the exchanging of a tent for a building.
~ Billy Graham
Death is the quiet haven of us all.
~ William Wordsworth
A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.
~ Stanislav Grof
Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.
~ Garth Nix, Sabriel
Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door.
~ Ethel M. Dell
Isn't death the boundary we need?
~ Don DeLillo
the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.
~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Death's but one more to-morrow.
~ Silas Weir Mitchell
Death is only an old door/Set in a garden wall.
~ Nancy Byrd Turner
Birth, not death, is the hard loss.
~ Louise Gluck
My father's death took me to a place I had never been and a place I had never left. In his absence, I've had to rely more on myself.
~ Gustavo Perez Firmat
Divorce is probably as painful as death.
~ William Shatner
Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.
~ Alexander MacLaren
I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots.
~ Walt Whitman
Death is hacking away at my address book and party lists.
~ Mason Cooley