Death Remembrance Quotes

• What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Sympathy, Death

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Death ends a life, not a relationship.

  Jack Lemmon

  Life, True Love, Death

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

  Johnny Carson

  Funny, Death, Phones

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  When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

  Khalil Gibran

  Moving On, Sympathy, Broken Heart

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.48, Lulu.com

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• In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Sad, Sympathy, Stars

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2414, Library of Alexandria

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• A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

  Rossiter W. Raymond

  Sympathy, Condolences, Sight

  Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

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• Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sympathy, Flower, Condolences

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• Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

  Rossiter W. Raymond

  Sympathy, Death, Military

  Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

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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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• I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Death: A Comedy in One Act". Book by Woody Allen, 1975.

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• I fall asleep in the full and certain hope That my slumber shall not be broken; And that, though I be all-forgetting, Yet shall I not be all-forgotten, But continue that life in the thoughts and deeds of those I have loved.

  Samuel Butler

  Death, Prayer, Fall

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited”, p.260, Courier Dover Publications

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• Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room.

  Joanna Lumley

  Remembrance, Death Of A Loved One, Dying

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• The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspiring, Sports, Memorial Day

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• I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are.

  Henry Scott Holland

  Remembrance, Memorial, Death Of A Loved One

  Henry Scott Holland, “Death Is Nothing At All”

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• I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Death, Witty

  Quoted in L.A. Times, 28 Nov. 1954

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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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• For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sympathy, Death, Grief

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.126, Lulu.com

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• Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

  Jack Kornfield

  Wisdom, Peace, Buddhist

  Twitter post from Jan 19, 2015

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• Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

  William Penn

  Death, Grief, Sea

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.183

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• Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Funny, Death

  "What Happens When the Average Lifespan Hits 100?" by Megan Erickson, bigthink.com.

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• If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

  Michelangelo

  Artist, Hands, Remembrance

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• Death is just nature's way of telling you to slow down.

  Dick Sharples

  Funny, Death, Way

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• They that love beyond the world
  cannot be separated by it.
  Death cannot kill what never dies.

  William Penn

  Sympathy, Death, Grief

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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