Deceased Quotes

55 Deceased quotes by 55 unique authors

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. — Thomas Hobbes
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
My grandmother always used to wear this English perfume called Tuberose and then she died and then I dated this girl who wore the same… — Mark Ronson
Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly,… — Salman Rushdie
We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto. — Willie Stargell
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… — Emanuel Swedenborg
When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go,… — Don DeLillo
That was one of the most fundamental and sacred duties good friends and families performed for one another! They tended the flame of memory, so… — Dean Koontz
Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they’re killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? 'Sweetheart, let’s make up.… — Jerry Seinfeld
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… — Alice Sebold
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… — Meghan O'Rourke
I was afraid you had deceased,' he said. 'Or gotten engrossed in a long book. — Garrison Keillor
When a man you know to be of sound mind tells you his recently deceased mother has just tried to climb in his bedroom window… — Richard K. Morgan
He lived in chambers that had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building… — Charles Dickens
At that stage of my youth, death remained as abstract a concept as non-Euclidean geometry or marriage. I didn't yet appreciate its terrible finality or… — Jon Krakauer
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… — Yann Martel
In China, the dead are not forgotten - my relatives cheerfully pointed out all the niches of deceased friends and family, as if gesturing at… — Tess Gerritsen
During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise and… — Tom Rachman
To turn our hearts to our fathers is to search out the names of our deceased ancestors and to perform the saving ordinances in the… — James E. Faust
The most important part of the process of mourning is regularly reciting kaddish in a synagogue. Kaddish is a doxology, which Jewish tradition has mandated… — David Novak
A deceased man has the right to breathe life into the womb of his wife and prove that love is stronger than death. — Unknown Author
Some will have to cease thinking of the Church as a memorial association for a deceased clergyman called Christ. — Stephen Bayne
The reality is that we dont forget, move on, and have closure, but rather we honor, we remember, and incorporate our deceased children and siblings… — Superman
Death is a harsh reality of life.. Each of us will die one day. We don't have any control over it, we loose our loved… — Anurag Prakash Ray
I wish there was some way to get the law changed. They can write anything about you after you're deceased and there's nothing you can… — Robert Wagner

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