Memorial Death Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death.

Decimius Magnus Ausonius

#3. For the love of country they accepted death.

James A. Garfield

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
From an Irish headstone

Richard Puz

#8. 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

#9. Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure.

Oliver Lodge

#10. It's like a memorial to Atlantis or Lyonesse: these are the stone buoys that mark a drowned world.

Christopher Hitchens

#11. The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.

Minot Judson Savage

#12. I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are.

Henry Scott Holland

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. The effects of loss are acute, and unique to each individual. Not everyone mourns in the same way, but everyone mourns.

Richelle E. Goodrich