Top 32 Death Remembrance Sayings
#1. Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
Ramana Maharshi
#2. Most people are not really scared of death. They are merely terrified of being taken to a mortuary and/or being buried or cremated and/or being forgotten.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#3. Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death.
Will Durant
#4. I miss your face. That big bright smile. You always had it, in any weather. It's hard for me to find one these days. These cold November days. Except when I think of you.
Kellie Elmore
#5. Remembrance of things past is just for the rich. For the poor it only marks the faint traces on the path to death.
Albert Camus
#6. Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?
Terry Pratchett
#8. A man obtains the fear of God if he has the remembrance of his unavoidable death and of the eternal torments that await sinners; If he tests himself every evening as to how he has spent the day, and every morning as to how he has spent the night, and if is not sharp in his relations with others.
Dorotheus Of Gaza
#9. I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are.
Henry Scott Holland
#10. As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine.
Thomas Pynchon
#11. Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.
Bill Vaughan
#12. He wore the memory of her embrace like armor, and though he knew it would not save his life, it would be all that was left to him to ease his passage into whatever lay beyond.
Andrew Levkoff
#13. You that in far-off countries of the sky can dwell secure, look back upon me here; for I am weary of this frail world's decay.
Murasaki Shikibu
#14. That was a strange thing, the death of Coco. Not that he should die, for owing to the unexpected folly of the concierge it was inevitable that he should, but his manner of doing it. Even at this distance of time, the remembrance agonises me. There
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#15. The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death. But who wants to die?
Jack Kerouac
#16. It's a sad fact that some people are only remembered once they're dead.
Kevin Focke
#17. Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room.
Joanna Lumley
#18. If you're always sad when you think about me, then how can you remember me?
Sally Nicholls
#19. Turn, O LORD, deliver my life; save me for the sake of your steadfast love. 5 For in c death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you praise?
Anonymous
#20. And I got to thinking about the moral meaning of memory, per se. And what it means to forget, what it means to fail to find and preserve the connection with the dead whose lives you, or I, want or need to honor with our own.
June Jordan
#21. Leaving the world without keeping an heirloom is a degradation of the divine purpose.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#22. Remembering may be a celebration or it may be a dagger in the heart, but it is better, far better, than forgetting.
Donald M. Murray
#23. There is no death in remembrance. Remember me, Sarah. Remember me, and a part of me will always be with you. - Martha Carrier to her daughter, Sarah Carrier
Kathleen Kent
#25. Never shame your comrades by letting their death get you killed
Rachel Bach
#26. The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful nostalgia.
Paul Evdokimov
#27. I would prefer to believe that things possess the power of recall, of recollection. That things are memoirs of the existences that once were theirs, if only we knew how to read them.
Norman Lock
#28. There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
Miguel De Cervantes
#30. Things whose perishing had been arrested by their power to make her love them.
Denis Johnson
#31. Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives,
When martyred flowers breathe out their little lives,
Sweet as a song that once consoled our pain,
But never will be sung to us again,
Is they remembrance. Now the hour of rest
Hath come to thee. Sleep, darling: it is best.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#32. Swiftly the remembrance of all things is buried in the gulf of eternity.
Marcus Aurelius
