Quotes About Dearly Departed

#1. We take most everything at face value. Otherwise how could we get by?" ~ "The Museum of the Dearly Departed

Rebecca Makkai

#2. Father Arnold finished the ceremony and asked if anybody had any final words for the dearly departed.
"Final words?" Chess asked, "I don't know if I'll ever be able to stop talking about this.

Sherman Alexie

#3. Funerals seem less about comforting the souls of these dearly departed than about
comforting the people they leave behind.

Rin Chupeco

#4. History and memory aren't the same thing[...] History doesn't abide acts of the imagination but memories depend on it. And memories are as much what we've forgotten as what we recall. History cannot be forgotten.

Peter Geye

#5. The holy war is warfare.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. He did not seek to efface pain in forgetfulness, he sought to elevate it and to dignify it with hope. He would say, "Be careful how you turn to the dead. Don't think of the rotting. Hold your gaze and you will see the living light of your dearly loved departed up above in heaven.

Victor Hugo

#7. The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.

Gabrielle Roy

#8. We see Facebook as an advertising platform. We see Ello as a social network.

Paul Budnitz

#9. Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#10. You always said I could see the present," said Candle, when she could speak. "But I can see nothing about her - my own daughter." Liir smoothed his hand over her silky flank. "Maybe that's not so surprising. Maybe all parents are blindest to their own offspring.

Gregory Maguire

#11. 13:7 There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.

Anonymous

#12. This is an exercise in power - the power of mind over matter. If you don't mind being inadequate, it doesn't matter.

Robert Fulghum

#13. No, not really. But ... " Okay, I couldn't help but gloat a little. "She likes me."
Samedi didn't even look at me. "Well of course, you've had that bloody uniform on all day. I was half ready to tell you how much I liked you.

Lia Habel

#14. I am only true when I'm alone.

Clarice Lispector

#15. Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.

Adam Duritz

#16. The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively
because, without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins. You have to put a 'box' around it because otherwise, what is that shit on the wall?

Frank Zappa

#17. I just want to make everyone happy.

Marat Safin

#18. Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

Miguel De Cervantes

#19. She took his finger and placed a small kiss on the end of it. "You're just full of surprises, Taggart." She saw him give her a very pleased male smile.
"Stick around, Darlin', there's more to me than meets your eyes."
"Should I be afraid?

Lindsay McKenna

#20. Not everyone is as stiff as the Dwarves," Ennion said, straightening back up and grinning. "I don't even think you can sit down and touch your toes."
"Really?" Cordon sat, pulled his knees up to his chest, and touched his toes. "It's not that hard.

Jack Lewis Baillot