Memoriam Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old memoriam quotes, memoriam sayings, and memoriam proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

And thou, most kind and gentle death / Waiting to hush our latest breath / O praise him—Alleluia / Thou leadest home the child of God / And Christ our Lord the way hath trod. St. Francis of Assisi
Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Death is but a passage out of a prison into a palace. John Bunyan
Do not seek death. death will find you, but seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. Dag Hammarskjold
Death is not extinction in any use of the word. It is always separation. Charles Caldwell Ryrie
It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss. Mark Twain
We lose not only through death but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on. Judith Viorst
Our losses include not only our separations and departures from those we love but our conscious and unconscious losses of romantic dreams, impossible expectations, illusions of freedom and power, illusions of safety— and the loss of our own younger self, the self that thought it would always be unwrinkled and invulnerable and immortal. Judith Viorst
Historically, death was common knowledge, with the old and young encountering bereavement feelings. Douglas Davies
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. Norman Cousins
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time...It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other. Leo Buscaglia
It is death that provides life with all its meaning. M. Scott Peck
Tears are sometimes an appropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile, Julie Burchill
If a man has learned to think, no matter what he may think about, he is always thinking of his own death. Leo Tolstoy
It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of love George W. Bush
Death can do no more than kill you. W.N.P. Barbellion
I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience. Rita Mae Brown
The diversity of memorial rites is indeed a measure of the universal import of both the meaning of death and the significance of the loss. Margaret Mead
Death is the art of losing. Elizabeth Bishop
At birth, we bring nothing; at death, we take nothing away. Chinese Proverb
When we slid the body into the grave, we both were shaken to the core. The loss we felt was not the loss of ham but the loss of pig. E.B. White
God will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away. Revelation 21:4
My own dim life should teach me this, That life shall live for evermore, Else earth is darkness at the core, And dust and ashes all that is.” Alfred Lord Tennyson
There are special people in our lives who never leave us .... even after they are gone. D. Morgan
Wherever a beautiful soul has been, there is a trail of beautiful memories. Ronald Reagan
They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old; / Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn. / At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, / We will remember them. Laurence Binyon