Quotes by category:Rest In Peace

Ed Koch will never "rest in peace." That was not his way. He was always nervously squirming, while making others squirm as well. Comfort was not his goal. He understood that to be a proud and assertive Jew meant never being able to leave a sigh of relief and say "it's over, we are at peace, we can now put down our guard and relax."

Alan Dershowitz

sigh-of-relief rest-in-peace goal

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.

Annie Dillard

rest-in-peace mystery life

I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in her life, may she rest in peace. Because that deed saved my life, if not sooner, then later, when sometimes the only thing I had to hold on to was knowing I could read.

Audre Lorde

rest-in-peace reading children

I kept going back while I was writing the novel - which never sold, may it rest in peace - and by the time it was finished I had too many connections to Haiti to walk away.

Ben Fountain

rest-in-peace connections writing

...The greatest rapper of all time died on March 9th.

Canibus

rest-in-peace rap kids

Little Jimmy Dickens has long been a musical hero of mine and one of the finest entertainers to ever step on any stage. I was deeply honored to call him a friend and will always remember the time I got to spend with him. The music world has lost one of our greatest treasures. Rest in peace, my little friend. You were loved by so many of us!

Charlie Daniels

greatest-treasure rest-in-peace hero

My thoughts and love go out to the Mandela family. Rest in peace Madiba. You will be missed, but your impact on this world will live forever.

Charlize Theron

rest-in-peace impact forever

If the dead can't rest in peace, how on Earth can the living?

Cheri Revai

rest-in-peace ghost earth

Country music and the world will miss George Jones. He was someone who set a high standard in our industry for great music and lyrics that tapped into the emotions of the human heart at a very deep level. His music has touched the lives of country music lovers for over five decades. My prayers are with his family and I pray for the repose of his soul. May you rest in peace, brother.

Collin Raye

rest-in-peace brother country

I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start with death. We are in eternity now. Norman Vincent Peale It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

Crowfoot

rest-in-peace running believe

One sweet world Around this star is spinning One sweet world And in her breath I'm swimming And here we will rest in peace

Dave Matthews

rest-in-peace stars sweet

Nine planets round the sun, only one does the sun embrace. Upon this watered one, so much we take for granted; So let us sleep outside tonight, lay down in our mother's arms, for here we can rest safely ... One sweet world around a star is spinning One sweet world And in her breath I'm swimming, and here we will rest in peace.

Dave Matthews

rest-in-peace mother sweet

I believe that everyone can appreciate the right of a family to grieve the loss of a loved one in peace, regardless of anyone's position on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Dave Reichert

rest-in-peace war believe

Life is stressful,dear. That's why they say "rest in peace.

David Mazzucchelli

death-and-dying rest-in-peace life-is

Sanguine chuckled. "I like you, boy. You got optimism in these bones. I like you so much that I ain't gonna tell you what I did to poor old Jethro, the first Jethro, may he rest in peace, may they someday find his head.

Derek Landy

rest-in-peace i-like-you boys

Hell was not for the living, it was for the dead, even the hallowed dead. Let the dead rest in peace. Someday Mack Bolan, too, would rest. For now, he had to find his way among the living.

Don Pendleton

rest-in-peace hell way

Rest in peace to Heath Ledger but I'm no joker

Drake

self-perception rest-in-peace humble

Let's learn to live!

Edgar Cayce

died rest-in-peace transition

Death is only passing through God's other door.

Edgar Cayce

rest-in-peace passing doors

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

rest-in-peace death children