Inspirational Wisdom Quotes on Death & Dying
by Alison Stormwolf

I was with you.
I never let you down.
Circumstance and situation are all illusion...
I was with you.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

Death has stages...
The spirit leaves, then the body dies.
Take great care what you say
around the departing soul.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

When the end comes.
let me rest well
secure in my inadequacies
above all things.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

That was not him in his coffin.
He was meeting with old friends,
putting the world to rights,
watching the Nairn sunset.
No, that was not him.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

 

Do not ever judge
death from what you see.
The body is only an empty shell,
twitching at times.
missing its inhabitant.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

Death comes
with great dignity.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

Death and I are old friends.
I see his ways,
he is always merciful
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

 

Death is God's greatest surprise
for His much loved children.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

In death all falls silent.
There is a sacredness in death
that we cannot explain.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

When death comes upon me
let me go willingly, joyfully,
secure in the knowledge I did my best.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

Lord God
In the hour of my departure
keep my eyes fixed on you.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

I saw many die.
Always did sacredness intervene.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

They come for you,
yes, its true,
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

There is nothing more dead
than the body from which
the soul has flown.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

The finality of death
should be a comfort.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

To be present at the transition
(human or animal)
is a great gift from Spirit.
what you do not understand now
you will .... you will.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

Gone, gone, gone beyond...
so a well loved mantra tells me.
The knowledge should uphold and uplift you.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

When they go and leave you,
do not make a saint out of that memory.
Rather remember them in honesty
and let a smile play upon your lips,
a tear moisten your eye.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

Death is nothing more
than the losing sight of...
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

My father, my father!
never did I love you more.
Death allowed me to see that.
Thank you for waiting for me...

~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

Death is a great teacher of brotherhood.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

The agony of bereavement
is essentially selfish.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

Death is the gateway to life.
Why should we fear life?
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

Death frees us from all infirmity.
What a blessing.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

The Angel of Death is a merciful friend.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~