Notable & Quotable: Birthday

In my end is my beginning.

– T.S.Eliot, Four Quartets

Those who live in the Lord never see each other for the last time.

– FTD customer

Only time moves on to the next scene. Memory remains part of the heart forever.

– FTD customer

And he will wipe out every tear form their eyes and death will be no more.

– Revelations 21:4

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

– Wallace Stevens, American poet

Death is not the last sleep. It is the final awakening.

– Walter Scott, Scottish novelist

Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.

-Oscar Wilde, English writer

Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

-Thomas Moore, English theologian

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

– Chinese Proverb

In eternity everything is just beginning.

– Elias Canetti, Bulgarian author

Into each life some rain must fall.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.

– Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator, 1890

Life is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

– Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator, 1890

The only thing you take with you when you’re gone is what you leave behind.

– John Allston

It isn’t life that matters! It’s the courage you bring to it.

– Sir Hugh Walpole

The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them.

– Bible, Wisdom of Solomon

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.

– Bible, Ecclesiastes

God created man to be immortal and made him to be an image of his own eternity.

– Bible, The Wisdom of Solomon

The journey is the reward.

Chinese Proverb

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

– Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.

– William Shakespeare

Brief is life but love is long.

– Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet

It is a far far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

– Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

– Sophocles

Every man’s life is a fairy tale written by God’s fingers.

– Hans Christian Anderson

He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.

– William Shakespeare

Death is just a beginning of another life.

– Upa. Surya Dharma Win Ong & FTD customer

Joy shared is twice the joy.
Sorrow shared is half the sorrow.

– Unknown

May God hold you in the palm of his hand.

– Irish blessing