Death Anniversary Quotes

• Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

  Helen Keller

  Sympathy, Death, Wisdom

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• Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

  Mitch Albom

  Love, Death, Gone

  Twitter post from Sep 11, 2015

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• One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching

  Gerard Way

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Motivational, Happy, Death

  Codice Trivulziano 281

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• Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

  Langston Hughes

  Life, Music, Death

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940”, p.251, University of Missouri Press

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• Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

  Andrew Sachs

  Life, Death, Adventure

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• To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

  Thomas Campbell

  Sympathy, Death, Memories

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.169

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• When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sympathy, Death

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 17

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• No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Death, Memorable

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• It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed, and every single one of his friends, still, after all these years... it's unbelievable.

  Eydie Gorme

  Anniversary, Years, Unbelievable

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• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

  George Eliot

  Life, Death, Kings

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.401

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• Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.

  Robin Hobb

  Death, Opposites, Choices

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Fool's Errand: The Tawny Man Trilogy”, p.183, Spectra

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• God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Atheist

  "God" (song) (1970)

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• For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Death, Spiritual

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.128, Lulu.com

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• If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Change, Death, Character

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• Life is a hurricane, and we board up to save what we can and bow low to the earth to crouch in that small space above the dirt where the wind will not reach. We honor anniversaries of deaths by cleaning graves and sitting next to them before fires, sharing food with those who will not eat again. We raise children and tell them other things about who they can be and what they are worth: to us, everything. We love each other fiercely, while we live and after we die. We survive; we are savages.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Children, Fire, Wind

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• Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Death, Age, Aging

  "Poor Richard's Almanack".

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• Everyone dies but not everyone lives.

  William Wallace

  Death, Funeral, Remembrance

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• To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

  J. K. Rowling

  Death, Travel, Adventure

  J. K. Rowling (2002). “Spark Notes Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone”, Spark Notes

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• You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

  Indira Gandhi

  Inspirational, Freedom, Women

  "The Embattled Woman Who Relishes Crosswords, Children...and Running India". People Magazine, June 30, 1975.

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• As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Codice Trivulziano 281

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• That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.

  Sarah Dessen

  Life, Death, Thinking

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.101, Penguin

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• Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

  Epicurus

  Death, Life And Death, Death And Dying

  "Wisdom's folly No.18" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2005.

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• For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

  Johnny Carson

  Funny, Death, Phones

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