Death Quotes ... Page 1
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"You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper." - Robert Alton Harris
"Every day we face the same truth: that our time here is short. And to honor the fallen we must live our own lives well. We must take the high road when we can and allow our common loss to bring us together." - One Tree Hill
"Do you remember when you loved me, before the world took you away. Well if you do, then forgive me and make the world, make it go away." - Martina McBride, "make the world go away"
"Quentin Fields was a basketball player. He was also a son, a brother... Somebody's teammate, somebody's friend. I didn't know Quentin Fields, and I guess now I never will. Did you ever wonder what it would be like if you weren't you anymore? If you were suddenly gone, how would your world react? Whatever you imagined is wrong. There's nothing romantic about death. Grief is like the ocean... it's deep and dark and bigger than all of us. And pain is like a thief in the night. Quiet, persistent, unfair... Diminished by time and fate and love. I didn't know Quentin Fields, but I'm jealous of him. Because I see how his absence has affected the people that did know him, so I know that he mattered to them, and I know he was loved. People say Quentin Fields was a great basketball player. Graceful, fluid, inspiring. They say on a good night it almost seemed that he could fly... and now he can." - One Tree Hill
"'death ends a life, not a relationship.'" - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
"maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another." - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
"When something comes along in my life that's too good to be true, I look inside my heart and know it's because of you. When a smile shows up for no reason at all. Or when a tear of joy just happens to fall, I smile, for I know you are near. Your sweet calming words I still hear. I wish I could hold you in my arms, but I no longer can, you are now an angel, following God's plan. And although it's always extremely sad to lose someone you love, I find comfort in knowing you watch over me. . . .from heaven above." - Jamie Freeman
"For the first time heaven seemed insane. Because heaven was to blame, for taking you away."
"and I look at him and all I can think of is the day when I won't be able to anymore." - a walk to remember
"Some people go through life and never find their soul mates. They never do. You and I did, we just happened to have them for a shorter period of time. It's sad, but it's life." - PS, I LOVE YOU by Cecilia Ahern
"When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose them all at once; you lose them in pieces over a long time - the way the mail stops coming - and their scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in their closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of them that are gone. Just when the day comes, when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feelings that they're gone forever, there comes another day, and another specifically missing part."
"When my time comes, scatter my ashes in the mountains, have a drink, tell yourselves, 'She lived well...She had a few laughs.'" - Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
"Andy: Delia, when someone we love dies, it's okay to be sad about it for awhile. For as long as you need to be really. But you-you, just can't hang on to all the love that you used to give to that person. Delia: Why not? Andy: Because--love's not worth a whole lot if you just keep it to yourself." - Everwood
"We live, we die, and the wheels on the bus go round and round." - The Bucket List
"It doesn't matter what you say about somebody once they're gone. What matters is how you treat them when they're still here." - 90210
"'dying? not the end of everything. we think it is. but what happens on earth is only the beginning.'" - The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
"'we just have to accept that people are going to stay in our hearts even when they don't stay in our lives.'" - Starting From Square Two by Caren Lissner
"It's a mistake to wait until someone dies to eulogize him. It's too late." - Ask Again Later by Jill A. Davis
"Sometimes, no matter how much faith we have, we lose people. But we never forget them. It's those memories that give us the strength to go on."
"If tears could build a stairway, and memories were a lane, I'd walk right up to Heaven and bring you home again. No fairwell words were spoken, no time to say goodbye, you were gone before I knew it, and only God knows why. My heart still aches in sadness, and secret tears still flow. What it meant to lose you, no one will ever know."
"You oughta see the way these people look at me when they see me 'round here talking to this stone." - LeAnn Rimes, "probably wouldn't be that way"
"You're going to meet the most extraordinary men, the sexiest, brightest, funniest men, and you're going to fall in love with so many of them, and you won't know until the end of your life who your greatest friends were or your greatest love was." - Milk
"'You'll get over it'. It's the clich�s that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life forever. You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The articulation of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is the shape of you and no one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?" - Jeanette Winterson
"'we just have to accept that people are going to stay in our hearts even when they don't stay in our lives.'" - Starting From Square Two by Caren Lissner
"You left before I had a chance to say goodbye, but that's the way life usually is--it just passes you by. But you can't hold on to regrets and you can't look back, so I'll just be thankful for the times that I had with you. I hope I'm just like you." - Plain White T's, "radios in heaven"
"It's hard not to see things as beginnings and endings. When someone dies, you want to mark time before or after. . . but time is time. It's a continuous motion, and we divide it into increments to pretend to have some control over it. To make it neat and manageable." - Ask Again Later by Jill A. Davis
"I'll just have to wait til then: until my time here is done and the angels come to take me. Then I'll be with you again." - LeAnn Rimes, "When am I gonna get over you?"
"I see you in my memory, as vivid as today and I wonder if you see me in that same familiar way. Oh another place, another time, we'll meet again and you'll be mine, cause nothing compares to you and I. Wasn't it true? Do you remember like I do, or is it all tainted in your view? Could I be just a dream or two away from you?"
"I told them all the great things I know about you and there were a lot. I was up there for a while. I didn't tell them everything, though. I left out the complicated stuff, like how it took losing you forever for me to truly find you. And how finding you turned me into someone else entirely. That's not what they came for. People want to hear you were great. Not that we were great, but also, sometimes, not so great. They want to know I miss you. Not that while I've been missing you, I've fallen for someone else. It's weird, though. I feel like the only one who would understand this is you. In a way, that makes sense. He was the one person you were yourself around. Of course he'd be that same person for me. Anyway, I left all that out and I kept it simple. I told them I loved you and that's the truth." - catch and release
"Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'" - Bill Maher, on Politically Incorrect, 1995
"It's never going to get easier. There is never going to be a 'Death for Dummies' book. There is never going to be an escape plan to pain because no matter how much I try no matter how much I cry my life is never going to go back to the way it used to be, because I know I can't just shut the door to your bedroom and hope everything disappears. I know that I can't stop myself from hoping that you will one day walk in the front door and smile as if nothing happened. I know that there will be days that it will be hard to get out of bed and look people in the eye and lie when they ask how I am. I know that its going to hurt for the rest of my life and that I will always cry, but I also know that you're in heaven now and your away from all of the pain and everything is better for you now. I just wish I could say the same for me."
"Yeah when I get where I'm going, there'll be only happy tears. I will shed the sins and struggles I have carried all these years. And I'll leave my heart wide open. I will love and have no fear. Yeah when I get where I'm going, don't cry for me down here." - Brad Paisley, "When I get where I'm going"
"When my time comes, scatter my ashes in the mountains, have a drink, tell yourselves, 'She lived well...She had a few laughs.'" - Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
"We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance." - Marcel Proust
"Heaven must be a wonderful place now that you are there...because I know the world is a lot less beautiful ... without you by my side." - Sara
"she felt it, felt his death in the emptiness that had spread through her heart." - Lovers & Dreamers by Nora Roberts.
"When I look back to the beginning I think of your smile. I think of how for a moment life was worthwhile. I think of the way you held my hand, kissed me softly, and could always understand. I think of the day you looked at me and our eyes met. These are the things I'll never forget. But now when I see my reflection and I look into my own eyes, I think of how I lost you. How we lost each other. I know one day you'll be breaking hearts in Heaven, but what can I do now that you've broken mine?"
"'once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.'" - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
"When someone is gone from your life for a really long time, you start to forget stuff about them. Like, you forget what their voice sounded like . . . and ho they loved you so much . . . and how everything you did was completely okay with them." - Party of Five
"Why do I have to say goodbye why does it have to be her? Why does it have to be now? What am I supposed to learn? That death hurts? I know it does ... I know that it's never going to be the same. I can learn that lesson without losing her, God, please don't take her away. There is not too much in this world that means anything to me right now, but without her I am going to stop caring ... my heart is going to break when hers stops ... and I am not going to be able to go on ... I am not going to be able to smile once she is gone."
"If only I could hear your voice one more time...guiding me through... my shining light.. maybe that would stop my tears... maybe if I could just see your face.. my heart would stop its grieving.. maybe if I could just let you know I love you..one more time... that would keep my mind at ease.. maybe if.. I had told you one more time how much you mean to me.. how much I look up to you..how scared I am going to be without you...you would haven't had left... maybe if.."
"My heart still aches in sadness and secret tears still flow. What it meant to lose you, no one will ever know."
"'as long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away.'" - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
"And the world just keeps on going. it has no way of knowing that you're gone." - Jessica Andrews, "never be forgotten"
"So you're gone and I know you had me promise I wouldn't cry, and I'm sorry. I know you're never coming back and I may never see you again, and well, it hurts. It hurts beyond imagination. And I thought I could handle it, but I can't. I want to reach out and touch you -- kiss you -- but you're not there. I would have given anything to tell you, 'I love you' one last time. But it wouldn't have changed anything. I despise fate." - JoAnne Golden
"When you lose someone you love, you never get over it. You just get used to it."
"Can you imagine what it feels like to have someone sit you down and tell you that you're dying? The gravity of that, hmm? Then the clock's ticking for you. In a split second your awe is cracked open. You look at things differently - smell things differently. You savor everything be it a glass of water or a walk in the park. But most people have the luxury of not knowing when that clock's going to go off. And the irony of it is that that keeps them from really living their life. It keeps them drinking that glass of water but never really tasting it."
"I am going to have to get out of bed every morning, and live every day with your image etched into my memory. Every time I close my eyes I will see your face, every time the room gets so silent you can hear a pin drop your voice will come to me. Every time I blink away the tears, your arms will enclose me. Every time I pray I will send kisses up to heaven for you. My only wish is that I didn't have to live here with you there.."
"Even now I cannot understand the measure of a life, but I can tell you this. I know that when he died, his eyes were closed and his heart was open." - The Bucket List
"I pray for you every second of every minute of every day...but it seems as if no one is listening..no one can see what is going on in my mind..no one can tell i am dying too...when i was little and we were apart you would tell me to say good night to the moon, and the moon would tell you..i just wish that who ever is listening to me would tell you how much you mean to me, how much it hurts me inside to see you like this..and how much i want to make it all better...but i can't..i can't do anything...it feels as if i am being held under water and no one is going to save me.."
