Burning Quote by Sogyal Rinpoche

We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a truth that…

— Anonymous

The experience of losing a loved one impels us toward a deeper understanding of life. Everyone fears and is saddened by death. That is…

— Daisaku Ikeda

By struggling toovercome the pain and sadness that accompanies death, we become sharply aware of the dignity and preciousness of life anddevelop the compassion…

— Senora Roy

In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can ask ourselves…

— Joan Halifax

“We are mortals all, human and nonhuman, bound in one fellowship of love and travail. No one escapes the fate of death. But we…

— Gary Kowalski

“Death drives every creative and destructive impulse we have as human beings. The closer we come to understanding it, the closer we come to…

— Caitlin Doughty

Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and from the time we stop growing, we know that we've begun dying. We watch helplessly…

— Jim Butcher

“When we recognize that, just like the glass, our body is already broken, that indeed we are already dead, then life becomes precious, and…

— Stephen Levine

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

We do not take much warning of our own mortality in seeing others die, nor of our own weakness in seeing others break down:…

— Julia McNair Wright

Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

— Ram Dass

We are all, always, the desire not to die. This desire is as immeasurable and varied as life's complexity, but at bottom this is…

— Henri Barbusse