Recently Deceased Quotes:

Live people ignore the strange and unusual. I myself, am strange and unusual.

- Tim Burton

topic: People, Strange, Unusual, Recently Deceased

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.

- Beetlejuice

source: "Fictional character: Lydia". "Beetlejuice", www.imdb.com. 1988.

topic: People, Strange, Unusual, Recently Deceased

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

topic: Girl, Grandmother, Thinking, Deceased, Recently Deceased

When a man you know to be of sound mind tells you his recently deceased mother has just tried to climb in his bedroom window and eat him, you only have two basic options. You can smell his breath, take his pulse and check his pupils to see if he's ingested anything nasty, or you can believe him.

- Richard K. Morgan

source: Richard K. Morgan (2009). “The Steel Remains”, p.3, Del Rey

topic: Mother, Believe, Men, Sound Mind, Recently Deceased

Few have attained to consummate wisdom in the perfection of philosophy: Solomon attained to it, and Aristotle in relation to his times, and in a later age Avicenna, and in our own days the recently deceased Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, and Adam Marsh.

- Roger Bacon

source: "Opus Tertium" by Roger Bacon, (p. 70), (c. 1267).

topic: Philosophy, Perfection, Age, Deceased, Recently Deceased

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.

- Tom Rachman

topic: Writing, Past, Careers, Deceased, Recently Deceased