“We give our dead
To the orchards
And the groves.
We give our dead
To life.”

“We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.”

“Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.”

“In this life mercy and forgiveness is our way and evermore leadeth us to grace. And by the tempest and the sorrow that we fall into on our part, we be often dead as to man’s doom in earth; but in the sight of God the soul that shall be saved was never dead, nor ever shall be.”

“We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as little as the hairs that have fallen from our heads.”

“Dead was the gift that kept on giving. Dead, like
diamonds, was forever.”

“Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground.”

“I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility.”

“Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.”

“We are all our own graveyards I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived; and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present.”