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Quotes About Departed

And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing. May we not call them ghosts of departed quantities?
~ George Berkeley
Death is just so final, you know? He's gone. There's no coming back. He's gone.
~ Caroline Kepnes
Like a couple of peasants huddled together in the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Jack and Eliza performed their role in the Mass and then departed, leaving no sign that they'd ever been there, save perhaps for an evanescent ripple in the coursing tide of quicksilver.
~ Neal Stephenson
Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Death is nothing at all, I have only slipped away into the next room.
~ Gianrico Carofiglio
Where are the blossoms of those summers!-fallen, one by one: so all of my family departed, each in his turn, to the land of the spirits.
~ James Fenimore Cooper
Reconnected the dead to the living world that processed without them.
~ Colson Whitehead
Another idiotic tradition, Regina thought. To eat and drink in memory of the departed. There was something gross about it. As if they were taunting the dead person. Hey, you're dead and gone, but life goes on, and look how well we're all eating.
~ Lara Vapnyar
The ship soon departed, but Carvalho remained to oversee the factory, a sojourn that lasted four years.)
~ Laurence Bergreen
How would you know she is a ghost? Many of the living are vague and adrift too, it's not a failing unique to the departed.
~ Damon Galgut
William Blake," Langdon said. " 'The dark religions are departed and sweet science reigns.'
~ Dan Brown
The dark religions are departed and sweet science reigns.
~ Dan Brown
But the teacher they follow is dead." "Is he? Are you so certain of that?" Gamaliel's eyes carried a piercing quality. "Have you bothered to hear what they are saying? They spoke their news again yesterday, standing before the group that had threatened them with death. They follow a messiah who departed so that the Spirit of God could breathe upon them all, a messiah who lives within.
~ Janette Oke
The missing aren't missing, they're only departed, All minds keep all thoughts - so like gold - closely guarded
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.
~ Homer
When you're held by the dead, you begin to feel that you aren't in this world yourself.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Ravenhill was not pleased with what had become of Holly, Zachary realized. His lordship was offended by the idea that his departed friend's wife was now employed by a lowbrow commoner. Too bad for you, Zachary thought nastily, every proprietary, primitive instinct in his body rising to the fore. She's mine now, and there's nothing in hell that you or anyone else can do about it.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed
~ Publilius Syrus
How would you know she is a ghost? Many of the living are vague and adrift too, it's not a failing unique to the departed.
~ Damon Galgut
You don't know how easy death is. It's - it's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever.
~ Eloisa James
Funerals seem less about comforting the souls of these dearly departed than aboutcomforting the people they leave behind.
~ Unknown
For it must be very lonely being dead.
~ Diane Setterfield
Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul?
~ J. K. Rowling
Despite their many activities, these departed souls are still able to reach us if called upon. Occasionally, a disturbed spirit does not want to leave the Earth after physical death. This is due to some unresolved problem which has had a severe impact on its consciousness. In these abnormal cases, help is available from higher, caring entities who can assist in the
~ Michael Newton