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Quotes About Deceased

Because of a jury-rigged and outdated system meant to track deaths, the government has trouble determining exactly which Americans are deceased.
~ David Fahrenthold
The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all very natural, sort of masculine without being overly macho.
~ Michael Caine
This is the question that nags me. National mourning, as advocated by Black Lives Matter, is a mode of intervention and interruption that might itself be assimilated into the category of public annoyance. This is altogether possible; but also possible is the recognition that it's a lack of feeling for another that is our problem. Grief, then, for these deceased others might align some of us, for the first time, with the living.
~ Claudia Rankine
I know what you want. One month after the ascension of Philippe the Gullible, M. Laclos found in a gutter, deceased. Blamed on a traffic accident. Two months after, King Philippe found in a gutter, deceased— it really is a bad stretch of road. Philippe's heirs and assigns having coincidentally expired, end of the monarchy, reign of M.Danton.
~ Hilary Mantel
I was gazing back in the direction of Wales, watching the Prudence clone, when I noticed a couple of drunks lurching in my direction. Night people who live in service stations. The insufficiently deceased.
~ Iain Sinclair
Bessant friend of the deceased, also an art dealer Malcolm Neilson artist William Allison Neilson's lawyer Dominic Mann art dealer Eric "Brains" Bain detective, computer specialist Professor Gates pathologist Morris Gerald "Big Ger" Cafferty Edinburgh's preeminent gangster
~ Ian Rankin
Su misión en la tierra ya no era vivir, sino organizar el mundo de los difuntos. Eugenia de Montijo
~ Unknown
The second kind of grief was "complicated grief," which was also known in the literature as "pathological bereavement" and was said to occur in a variety of situations. One situation in which pathological bereavement could occur, I read repeatedly, was that in which the survivor and the deceased had been unusually dependent on one another.
~ Joan Didion
If y'all fresh to death, then I'm deceased.
~ Kanye West
you seldom hear, at a funeral, a friend of the deceased saying, "What do you expect, she wore L'Heure Bleue
~ Unknown
There's no privacy for the violently dead.
~ zelda popkin
funeral services took place with the casket open, so that the mourners were required to view the deceased while great things were said about him. It was an odd custom, one aimed at making the moment far more dramatic than necessary.
~ John Grisham
special statue of the deceased. This statue will house the Ka, but my job, and that of those under me, is to prepare the physical body to house the Ba, the soul of PenMa'at.
~ Unknown
Aquel era uno de esos trabajos que convertían a los cazadores en leyendas. Aunque, por supuesto, para convertirse en leyenda por lo general había que estar muerto.
~ Nalini Singh
a um morto não se recusa nada".
~ Nelson Rodrigues
then the train company will charge the family of the deceased. It's supposed to stop the jumpers from disrupting the trains - Tokyo doesn't appreciate being put behind schedule
~ Unknown
Fancy having to work for a living when you're dead.
~ Peter F. Hamilton