"Of joys departed, not to return, how painful……" — Robert Blair

More Departed Quotes

This quote is filed under Departed Quotes, one of 107 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry.… — Tertullian
• I saw them with my bodily eyes as clearly as I see you. And when they departed, I used to… — Joan of Arc
• The world so quickly adjusts itself after any loss, that the return of the departed would nearly always throw it,… — Charles Dudley Warner
• Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. — Thomas Browne
• But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were… — Thomas Jefferson
• Tears fell from my eyes - yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
• He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain. — Jane Austen
• Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world. — Jean Paul
• When mourning the loss of our departed friends, I cannot help but think that in every death there is a… — Wilford Woodruff
• The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of… — Henry David Thoreau
• The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but… — Jean Baudrillard
• Dead he is not, but departed, for the artist never dies. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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