Many see life as a journey from life towards death…

• The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death. Seneca the Younger
• Our life is a constant journey, from birth to death. The landscape changes, the people change, our needs change, but the train keeps moving. Life is the train, not the station. Paulo Coelho
• I am a conscious wave, rising and falling from the unconscious depths each day when I wake and sleep. While I’m awake, I believe that I’m choosing my direction as I make my journey of life before I crash upon the shoreline of death. But actually everything I do is no more than an impersonal eddy in the great sea of being. Tim Freke
• Life is just a journey toward death. If you can understand that your whole life is just a journey and nothing else, then you are less interested in life and more interested in death. And once someone becomes more interested in death, he can go deep into the very depths of life; otherwise, he is just going to remain on the surface. Osho

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…death being the final destination…

• To be born is to start the journey towards death. Madeleine L’Engle
• Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom. David Wojnarowicz
• Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. Steve Jobs
• Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination. Brandon Sanderson
• Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination. Lauren DeStefano
• Love is a voyage with no destination except death. Bernard Cornwell
• Love is a voyage too, a voyage with no destination except death, but a voyage of bliss. Bernard Cornwell
• Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. David Wojnarowicz
• Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination. Lauren DeStefano
• He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination. Seneca the Younger
• Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life. Steve Jobs

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…death being the end goal…

• The real thing is not the goal, the real thing is the beauty of the movement. The real thing is not reaching, the real thing is the journey. Remember, the real thing is the journey, the very traveling. It is so beautiful, why bother about the goal? And if you are too bothered about the goal, you will miss the journey, and the journey is life – the goal can only be death. Rajneesh
• And the greatest calamity that has happened to the human mind is that he is against death. Being against death means you will miss the greatest mystery. And being against death also means that you will miss life itself – because they are deeply involved into each other; they are not two. Life is growing, death is the flowering of it. The journey and the goal are not separate; the journey ends in the goal. Rajneesh

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…death being the journey’s end to life

• And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey’s end. James Russell Lowell
• The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end. John Dryden
• Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The World’s an Inn, and Death the journey’s end. John Dryden
• Grieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end. Hafez
• O pity the dead that are dead, but cannot make the journey, still they moan and beat against the silvery adamant walls of life’s exclusive city. H. Lawrence
• The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day. George Eliot
• But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey’s end. James Russell Lowell
• Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end. John Dryden

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Others make the point that no journey ever ends…

• A journey never ends. Only the travellers end. Jose Saramago

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…and that death is far from being the end of our journey

• Death is not the end. Death can never be the end. Death is the road. Life is the traveller. The Soul is the Guide … Our mind thinks of death. Our heart thinks of life.  Our soul thinks of Immortality.  Sri Chinmoy
• Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms. Devdutt Pattanaik

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Death itself is an epic journey…

• Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion. H. Lawrence
• Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley, the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years. George Eliot
• Death,’ whispered Tarlar, ‘you do not fear it, Fell? By water, or any other way?’ ‘What is to fear?” answered the black wolf. ‘If it is an end, then so be it. For there is no pain in that, except the pain left to the living… And if death is not an end, then what more than a wonderful journey. David Clement-Davies
• Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you. H. Lawrence
• Life is one of Gods greatest Journeys, But Death is the next great Adventure. Chris Cole

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..an integral part of the journey…

• Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible. Winston Churchill
• Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever. Brennan Manning
• A society that doesn’t know any longer how to observe every death with proper rituals, that does not know that death is not the end, but only part of the journey, has lost its way, has had the very heart of its humanity torn out. Marina Warner

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…a continuation of the journey…

• Pippin: I didn’t think it would end this way. Gandalf: End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path… One that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass… And then you see it. J. R. R. Tolkien
• Death is the end of a stage, not the end of the journey. The road stretches on beyond our comprehension. Oliver Lodge
• But I just don’t think it’s an abyss of nothingness [after death] and that we fall off and that our journey stops. I think it’s circular and we go and we go and we go. Halle Berry
• Death is the continuing of life … the next part of our life. It’s like walking through a door, you know? Walking through the door marked “Death”: It’s the beginning of a new part of our journey. Rosemary Altea

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…the beginning of a new leg of the journey

• Death was just the beginning of a journey that everyone took at some point. Melissa de la Cruz
• The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying says that death is the graduation ceremony, while living is just a long course in learning and preparing for the next journey. If we acknowledge death as the beginning, then how can we fear it? Nikki Sixx
• … if death is the journey to another place, and there, as men say, all the dead are, what good, O my friends and judges, can be greater than this? Plato

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…a journey that is delightful and interesting…

• I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• To die should be the most interesting journey of all the journeys a person can take. Janwillem van de Wetering

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…a journey that is eternal…

• We are travellers in a cosmic journey – star dust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. But the expressions of life are ephemeral, momentary, transient. Buddha once said “This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds. To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky.” We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. If we share with caring, light heartedness and love, we will create abundance and joy for each other. And then this moment will have been worthwhile. Deepak Chopra
• The destination is a happy life, an accomplished life that doesn’t end with death but with eternal life. Angelo Scola

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…a journey into new worlds to explore…

• Death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a world where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where dreams and adventures forever expand. Randy Alcorn
• Pippin: What? Gandalf?… See what? Gandalf: White shores… and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise. Pippin: Well, that isn’t so bad. Gandalf: No… No it isn’t.  J. R. R. Tolkien
• When the time comes, the journey toward the brilliant white light that marks the barrier between this world and the next will not hold as much fear as it once would have. For in my study of death, I have found the celebration of life. Dolores Cannon

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…a journey that is part astral…

• Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by daily riding in the balloon of God-perception. Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a bundle of flesh and bones, which at best is a nest of troubles. Meditate unceasingly, that you may quickly behold yourself as the Infinite Essence, free from every form of misery. Cease being a prisoner of the body; using the secret key of KRIYA, learn to escape into Spirit. Lahiri Mahasaya

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…a journey into timelessness…

• …death is ultimately a dimension of life through which we journey into timelessness. John Shelby Spong

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…a journey of evolution to higher levels…

• Life is eternal; death only punctuates it for a short while. After a little break life starts again. Death is ultimate truth; life is truth beyond ultimate. Life is never destroyed; it just keeps on changing shapes. Endless processes are attached with this life; many stages are there in this grand journey of life. From an insect to an enlightened soul it keeps on changing. Creation is always beautiful in the beginning. It can be beautiful all the time also. What is purpose of life? It’s evolution to higher levels Mahesh Babu

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…a journey towards self-realisation…

• Our self (Soul), as a form of God’s joy, is deathless. For his joy is amritham, eternal bliss. We know that the life of a Soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realize the infinite. Rabindranath Tagore
• These are only outer symptoms. Death is the transfer of the soul from one body to another body, or in cases when a man is fully awakened, from one body to the body of the whole universe. It is a great journey, but you cannot know it from the outside. From outside, only symptoms are available; and those symptoms have made people afraid. Rajneesh

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…a continuation of the journey towards God

• Death is the means by which dream matter changes back into the consciousness of God, releasing the soul within it for the next step in its progressive return journey to God. Paramahansa Yogananda

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…a journey that ultimately leads home

• Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house. John Ruskin

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To continue our journey at death, we must ask two questions

• Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, ‘Did you bring joy?’ The second was, ‘Did you find joy? Leo Buscaglia

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On a lighter note

• Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!” Hunter S. Thompson