“Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.”– Pearl S. Buck Related Quotes “Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.”– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross “You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.”– Jean Cocteau “What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.”– Henry Van Dyke