Top 26 Death Memorial Quotes
#1. The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event.
J.B. Priestley
#2. There are really only three kinds of people. Those who don't succeed, those who achieve success temporarily, and those who become and remain successful. Character is the only way to sustain success.
John C. Maxwell
#3. The effects of loss are acute, and unique to each individual. Not everyone mourns in the same way, but everyone mourns.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#4. Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death.
Silas Weir Mitchell
#5. The grave in the woods is unmarked, but Fred can direct the mourner to it unerringly and with immense good will, and I know he and I shall often revisit it, singly and together, in seasons of reflection and despair, on flagless memorial days of our own choosing.
E.B. White
#6. I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are.
Henry Scott Holland
#7. Once you run for office, you're in it - sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.
John F. Kennedy Jr.
#8. The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.
Minot Judson Savage
#9. Amid the push to excellence, with its measurement and accountability, it is easy to lose sight of a key ingredient in reading a book - the pleasure it bring us, something too many boil down to a dirty word: FUN.
Jim Trelease
#11. It's like a memorial to Atlantis or Lyonesse: these are the stone buoys that mark a drowned world.
Christopher Hitchens
#12. No matter how steep the mountain - the Lord is going to climb it with you.
Helen Steiner Rice
#13. Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure.
Oliver Lodge
#14. Memorial Day should be a day for putting flowers on graves and planting trees. Also, for destroying the weapons of death that endanger us more than they protect us, that waste our resources and threaten our children and grandchildren.
Howard Zinn
#15. Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
From an Irish headstone
Richard Puz
#16. The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights.
Liu Xiaobo
#17. memories are the most powerful chains,
Chloe Neill
#18. And now I am ready to keep running When the sun rises beyond the borderlands of death. I already see mountain ridges in the heavenly forest Where, beyond every essence, a new essence awaits.
Czeslaw Milosz
#19. If I were blind I'd rather have another blind person leading me around because they know what I'm dealing with and they're experiencing the same things.
Augusten Burroughs
#20. Women and children knew deep in themselves that no misfortune was too great to bear if their men were whole.
John Steinbeck
#21. I am the living death, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne come home, your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave.
Ron Kovic
#22. Fold him in his country's stars.
Roll the drum and fire the volley!
What to him are all our wars,
What but death bemocking folly?
George Henry Boker
#24. When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
Umberto Eco
#26. I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
Otis Rush
