“Let the dead rest, and care for the living.”

“Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara”

“This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.”

“Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.”

“Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.”

“Jesus once said that the dead should left to bury the dead (Luke 9:60). This shows no disrespect for the dead. It shows an awareness that there are some functions in society that will be well taken care of without Christians investing their creativity in those functions. Someone else, in meeting such needs, can make a stable living. Burying the dead is still one of the businesses in which you can make a stable living. There are other such services that we can count on society handling by itself. Leadership in government and business are among these. Let us reserve our limited creativity for functions that will not be taken care of if we do not to it.”

“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”

“Ye are better than all the ballads
That ever were sung or said;
For ye are living poems,
And all the rest are dead.”

“Trust no future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act, act in the living present!
Heart within, and God o'erhead!”

“Let music make less terrible
The silence of the dead;
I care not, so my spirit last
Long after life has fled.”