Verses & Quotations

The greatest mystery of life is that we cannot know its true beginning or end.  The end of a life begins a memory - a memory that lives forever.
~ author unknown ~

When a loved one becomes a memory, a memory becomes a treasure. Treasure your memories.
~ author unknown ~

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain that we can carry nothing out.
~ I Timothy 6:7 ~ the Bible ~

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
~ Matthew Arnold ~

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on the other side citizens; on this side orphans, on the other side children.
~ Henry Ward Beecher ~

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens
~ Woody Allen ~

"Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender mercies of its people, their respect for the law of the land, and their loyalty to high ideals."
~ William E. Gladstone ~ Four term Prime Minister of England

"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
~ Leonardo Da Vinci ~

"It is hard to have patience with people who say "There is no death" or "Death doesn't matter". There is death. And it matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.
~ C. S. Lewis ~

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
~ Martin Luther ~

Death is the golden key that opens the door to eternity.
~ John Milton ~

He has gone over to the majority.
~ Petronius ~

Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening.
~ Sir Walter Scott ~

God's finger touched him and he slept.
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson ~

All say, How hard it is that we have to die - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
~ Mark Twain ~

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
~ I Corinthians 15:26 ~ the Bible ~