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  • To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing.

    Regret   Lakes   Sea  
  • We do not remember days, we remember moments.

    Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.172, Transaction Publishers
  • Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief, tends to degrade the rites and respect they seek to accord to the deceased person who was once their own.

  • No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

  • And if a man consider the original of this great Ecclesiastical Dominion, he will easily perceive, that the Papacy , is no other than the Ghost of the deceased Romane Empire , sitting crowned upon the grave thereof: For so did the Papacy start up on a Sudden out of the Ruines of that Heathen Power.

    Men   Empires   Dominion  
    Thomas Hobbes (2010). “Leviathan - Revised Edition”, p.566, Broadview Press
  • The long-continued and useful public service and eminent purity of character of the deceased ex-President will be remembered.

  • My grandmother always used to wear this English perfume called Tuberose and then she died and then I dated this girl who wore the same thing. Every time I hung out with her, I could only think of my recently deceased grandmother. So sometimes a signature scent can be good and sometimes it can be bad.

    "Mark Ronson's Scent Manifesto". Interview with Stelios Phili, www.gq.com. Mark Ronson's Scent Manifesto.
  • I think we need to not look at sorrow and happiness as opposites that cannot co-exist. They can and do co-exist. I have preached many memorial services where you see the sadness and the tears for those attending, and then you see how quick people are to laugh as they remember funny and happy things about their loved ones. And if the deceased knew Christ, those in attendance are able to rejoice as they anticipate the reunion that will one day come.

    Source: www.patheos.com
  • Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.

    "Enemies". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1887.
  • And every breath I breathe untill the moment I'm deceased. Will be another moment ballin' as a 'G'.

    Song: Heartz of Men
  • The Japanese eat, sleep, and breathe golf; the only thing they don't do is actually play it, because to get on a course, you have to make a reservation roughly 137 years in advance, which means that by the time you actually get to the first tee you are deceased. Of course, in golf this is not really a handicap.

    Funny   Humorous   Mean  
    Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.144, Ballantine Books
  • If the widow of a man who died without leaving issue, raises up to him a son by a member of the family , she shall deliver to that ,son the whole property which belonged to the ,deceased .

    Son   Men   Issues  
  • Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they’re killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? 'Sweetheart, let’s make up. Have this deceased squirrel.

  • He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

  • There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured.

    Lying   Men   May  
    'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 80
  • Grief is not a disorder, a disease or sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.

    Earl A. Grollman (2014). “Straight Talk about Death for Teenagers: How to Cope with Losing Someone You Love”, p.6, Beacon Press
  • Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.

    "Good Grief". www.newyorker.com. February 1, 2010.
  • Odors can be highly transitory, depending on the air currents. If this is happening in your house, ask if there are any possessions of that deceased loved one still around. If it happens elsewhere, consider just how many millions of people use the same perfume or smoke the same brand of cigar as someone you knew.

    Air   People   House  
  • Mystery's a thing not easily captured, and once deceased, not easily exhumed.

    Song: Make Love Stay
  • Every time voter fraud occurs, it cancels out the vote of a lawful citizen and undermines democracy - can't let that happen. Any form of illegal or fraudulent voting, whether by non-citizens or the deceased, and any form of voter suppression or intimidation must be stopped.

    Voting   Democracy   Vote  
    "Trump's Election Integrity Commission Holds First Meeting In Effort To Probe Voter Fraud" by Audie Cornish, Pam Fessler, listen.sdpb.org. July 19, 2017.
  • When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.

    Death   Thinking   Years  
    Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.115, Pan Macmillan
  • The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.

    Reading   Tests   Firsts  
    Samuel Richardson (1824). ““The” Novels Of Samuel Richardson, Esq. Viz. Pamela, Clarissa Harlowe, And Sir Charles Grandison: 6-8”, p.710
  • That was one of the most fundamental and sacred duties good friends and families performed for one another! They tended the flame of memory, so no one’s death meant an immediate vanishment from the world; in some sense the deceased would live on after their passing, at least as long as those who loved them lived. Such memories were an essential weapon against the chaos of life and death, a way to ensure some continuity from generation to generation, an order of endorsement and meaning.

    Dean Koontz (2004). “The Bad Place”, p.360, Penguin
  • During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise and great relief, they often wanted to talk - they wanted their recently deceased loved ones recorded in print.

    Writing   Past   Careers  
  • She realized how many of her beliefs were either unrealistic or belonged to her deceased parents and her ex-husband. She also realized that her expectations for herself and others were sometimes too rigid. She was trying to live up to what everyone else said was best for her, which made her depressed and hard to be around at times. Once she changed her beliefs about herself and others, she began to smile more and enjoy life.

  • If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.

    "The Crow". www.imdb.com. May 10, 1994.
  • Although I have always loved the noise of laughter, I really can't fear the coming of quiet. As for funerals, I rather like them. Such nice things are always said about the deceased, I feel sad that they had to miss hearing it all by just a few days.

    Laughter   Nice   Missing  
    "Obituary". web.archive.org. December 30, 2003.
  • I'm of the opinion that it is always a kind and appropriate decision to get in touch with someone who's lost a loved one to remind them that you're thinking of them and have fond memories of the deceased.

    "Gone From the Chapel". Live chat, www.slate.com. March 22, 2016.
  • Personality of reincarnating as Paulo was that of his deceased sister, Emilia. She made several suicidal attempts. Finally she took cyanide and died very quickly on October, 12, 1921." Joe Fisher continued the research: Emilia died "fourteen months before Paulo's birth. He took on Emilia's self destructive instincts. Paulo made several attempts to kill himself before committing suicide on September 5, 1966 by setting himself on fire.

    Suicide   Suicidal   Self  
  • Well, I've read through that handbook for the recently deceased. It says, 'live people ignore the strange and unusual. I, myself, am strange and unusual.

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