Quotes for All Souls' Day

All Souls' Day Quotes

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.
-Marcel Proust


No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
-Euripides


God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.
-John Donne


Death is a release from the impressions of sense, and from impulses that make us their puppets, from the vagaries of the mind, and the hard service of the flesh.
-Marcus Aurelius (Meditations)

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.
-Hermann Broch


The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca


For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
-William Penn


Paradise -
I see flowers
from the cottage where I lie.
-Yaitsu's death poem, 1807


Oh, may I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again.
-George Eliot, The Choir Invisible

He first deceas'd; She for a little tri'd
To live without him: lik'd it not, and di'd.
-Henry Worton


And, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of Heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
-Anonymous


Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
-From a headstone in Ireland

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 Éxupéry


The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.
-John Dryden


The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
-Hermann Hesse


Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.
-Rabindranath Tagore


Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer


Is death the last sleep? No--it is the last and final awakening.
-Sir Walter Scott


For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come!
-William Shakespeare