Those Who Have Died Quotes:

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

- George S. Patton

source: Speech at the Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, on June 07, 1945. "Patton, ordeal and triumph". Book by Ladislas Farago, 1963.

topic: Death, Wisdom, Memorial Day, Someone Who Is Dying, Inspirational Condolences

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

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Sympathy, Missing You, Death, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

- Mark Twain

topic: Positive, Men, Fear Of Death, Someone Who Is Dying, Live To The Fullest

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Death, People, Someone Who Is Dying, Meaningful Death

In the United States alone, we spend seven times as much on war as on education. There's something wrong there. On this Memorial Day, we should certainly honor those who have died at war, but we should dedicate this day, not so much to their memory, but to the search for a way to end the idiocy of the wars that killed them.

- Andy Rooney

topic: Memorial Day, Memories, War, Those Who Have Died

My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes. She sees those who have died and now dwell in the world of Yin, ghosts who leave the mists just to visit her kitchen on Balboa Street in San Francisco.

- Amy Tan

source: Amy Tan (2012). “The Hundred Secret Senses”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

topic: Believe, Eye, San Francisco, Those Who Have Died

It is our responsibility as Americans to provide for the families of those who have died to defend our nation. Raising the military death benefit is not a Democrat or Republican issue - it is an American issue.

- Brian Baird

topic: Military, Responsibility, Issues, Those Who Have Died

Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died.

- Junipero Serra

topic: Sea, Land, Found, Those Who Have Died

I promise you that, with increased attendance in the temples of our God, you shall receive increased personal revelation to bless your life as you bless those who have died

- Ezra Taft Benson

topic: Promise, Attendance, Temples, Personal Revelation, Those Who Have Died

Grieving is a journey that teaches us how to love in a new way now that our loved one is no longer with us. Consciously remembering those who have died is the key that opens the hearts, that allows us to love them in new ways.

- Thomas Attig

topic: Grief, Heart, Journey, Mourning Loss Loved One, Those Grieving

Peace is the real and right memorial for those who have died in war.

- Richard M. Nixon

topic: Memorial Day, Real, War, Those Who Have Died

Unlike Rosa, I can see no divine purpose behind the tangle of this existence, no ordering hand. It is all a mystery, or more accurately, a mess. There are no heroes or villains, no saviors or demons or angels. Only those who have died and those of us who, for whatever reason, have survived. None of this will keep me from believing in God. I believe in Him, I just don't know that I will ever have faith in Him.

- Brady Udall

topic: Hero, Believe, Angel, Divine Purpose, Those Who Have Died

The heart of grief, its most difficult challenge, is not "letting go" of those who have died but instead making the transition from loving in presence to loving in separation.

- Thomas Attig

topic: Letting Go, Grief, Heart, Difficult Challenges, Not Letting Go