Deceased Quotes

• And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."

  Rudyard Kipling

  Tombstone, Lying, Fighting

  The Naulahka (1892) ch. 5

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• If y'all fresh to death, then I'm deceased.

  Kanye West

  Song, Ifs

  Song: Selfish

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• For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

  William Penn

  Sympathy, Death, Memorial Day

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2008). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Sympathy, Missing You, Death

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• Sorrow makes us all children again -
  destroys all differences of intellect.
  The wisest know nothing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sad, Children, Condolences

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.277, Harvard University Press

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• Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sympathy, Long Distance Relationship, Goodbye

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• Sorrow makes us all children again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Grief, Condolences

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.277, Harvard University Press

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• Grief is not a disorder, a disease or sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.

  Earl A Grollman

  Love, Inspirational, Death

  Earl A. Grollman (2014). “Straight Talk about Death for Teenagers: How to Cope with Losing Someone You Love”, p.6, Beacon Press

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• If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.

  James O'Barr

  Sympathy, Death, Lost Love

  "The Crow". www.imdb.com. May 10, 1994.

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• We do not remember days, we remember moments.

  Cesare Pavese

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.172, Transaction Publishers

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• If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.

  James O'Barr

  Sympathy, Death, Real

  "The Crow". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

  Hermann Broch

  Inspirational, Soul, Impression

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• Archaeologists are underpaid publicity agents for deceased royalty.

  John Agar

  Agents, Publicity, Royalty

  "Fictional character: Dr. Roger Bentley". "The Mole People", www.imdb.com. 1956.

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• That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Men, Race, Heaven

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2012). “Last Judgment: Are We Living in the End of Days?”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Teammate, Quiet

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• I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not know what the charges that were lodged against me or my deceased parents at this time.

  Bob Matsui

  Umpires, Parent, Trials

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• The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.

  Samuel Richardson

  Reading, Tests, Firsts

  Samuel Richardson (1824). ““The” Novels Of Samuel Richardson, Esq. Viz. Pamela, Clarissa Harlowe, And Sir Charles Grandison: 6-8”, p.710

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• The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Sitting, Leviathan, Empires

  'Leviathan' (1651) pt. 4, ch. 47

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• Every time voter fraud occurs, it cancels out the vote of a lawful citizen and undermines democracy - can't let that happen. Any form of illegal or fraudulent voting, whether by non-citizens or the deceased, and any form of voter suppression or intimidation must be stopped.

  Donald Trump

  Voting, Democracy, Vote

  "Trump's Election Integrity Commission Holds First Meeting In Effort To Probe Voter Fraud" by Audie Cornish, Pam Fessler, listen.sdpb.org. July 19, 2017.

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• There is nothing more painful than the untimely death of someone young and dear to the heart. The harrowing grief surges from a bottomless well of sorrow, drowning the mourner in a torrent of agonizing pain; an exquisite pain that continues to afflict the mourner with heartache and loneliness long after the deceased is buried and gone.

  Jocelyn Murray

  Pain, Loneliness, Grief

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• Death. To die. To expire. To pass on. To perish. To peg out. To push up daisies. To push up posies. To become extinct. Curtains, deceased, Demised, departed And defunct. Dead as a doornail. Dead as a herring. Dead as a mutton. Dead as nits. The last breath. Paying a debt to nature. The big sleep. God's way of saying, "Slow down."

  Patch Adams

  Sleep, Departed, Debt

  "Fictional character: Hunter Patch Adams". "Patch Adams", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Relationship, Letting Go, Loss

  "Good Grief". www.newyorker.com. February 1, 2010.

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• The dead are never exactly seen by the living, but many people seem acutely aware of something changed around them. They speak of a chill in the air. The mates of the deceased wake from dreams and see a figure standing at the end of thier bed, or in a doorway, or boarding, phantomlike, a city bus.

  Alice Sebold

  Dream, Air, Cities

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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• I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I was now as guilty as Cain. I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. It's a terrible burden to carry. All sentient life is sacred.

  Yann Martel

  Religious, Boys, Blood

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.192, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Tsars and slaves, the intelligent and the obtuse, publicans and pharisees all have an identical legal and moral right to honor the memory of the deceased as they see fit, without regard for anyone else's opinion and without the fear of hindering one another.

  Anton Chekhov

  Memories, Intelligent, Honor

  Anton Chekhov's letter to K.S. Barantsevich, March 30, 1888.

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