I was murdered. Even though my heart continued to beat, I…

I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not know what…

— Anonymous

“It will not be easy to let go of your deceased mother, who stands in her kitchen slicing potatoes and roast, who hacks ice…

— Jill Sisson Quinn

Tsars and slaves, the intelligent and the obtuse, publicans and pharisees all have an identical legal and moral right to honor the memory of…

— Anton Chekhov

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

— Samuel Richardson

“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A funeral is for those left behind. Sometimes, one wonders if the weeping is more out of fear for ourselves than it is sympathy…

— Ming-Dao Deng

“The air is different in the homes of the dead, I've noticed. Partly it's the smell. Blood baking under those bright halogen lamps. The…

— Harry Bingham

During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise…

— Tom Rachman

“On his death even The Times remarked that, ‘never was an individual less regretted by his fellow creatures than this deceased king’.”

— Simon Jenkins

That was one of the most fundamental and sacred duties good friends and families performed for one another! They tended the flame of memory,…

— Dean Koontz

“And a soul would run by a living being, touch them softly on the shoulder or cheek, and continue on its way to heaven.…

— Alice Sebold

Mystery's a thing not easily captured, and once deceased, not easily exhumed.

— Dan Fogelberg

“Maybe the best way to honor the deceased was to laugh with the living.”

— Jan Karon

The spirit walks of every day deceased.

— Edward Young

There's a really brilliant photographer who's deceased who in my sort of fashion and modelling days, I was fortunate enough to get to work…

— Gabriel Mann