25+ Day Of The Dead Quotes For Your Día De Los Muertos Celebrations

The day of the dead is one of the most important holidays in Mexican culture that pays respect and homage and celebrates their dead ancestors, and near and dear loved ones by setting up an altar of their pictures and offerings.

In Spanish, it is known as Día De Los Muertos and is celebrated on the first and the second day of November with, great pomp and gaiety. In Mexican culture, mourning is considered to be insulting for the dead; hence, everyone commemorates the dead with music, revelry and food and pray to, and for, their safe passing and peace in the afterlife.

Here is a list of some of some Dia De Los Muertos quotes which you are bound to love.

Thought-provoking Dia de Los Muertos Quotes

• The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life. – Charles Frohman
• People fear death more than pain. – Jim Morrison
• To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. – Thomas Campbell, Hallowed Ground
• Life hurts a lot more than death. – Jim Morrison
• For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? – Kahlil Gibran

• For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. – William Penn
• Death is the gate of life. – St. Bernard of Clairvaux
• To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. – Thomas Campbell
• After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. – J.K. Rowling
• It is a fact of life that we all die. – Catherine Pulsifer
• Death isn’t sad. The sad thing is: most people don’t live at all. – Socrates, ‘Peaceful Warrior’
• A human life is a story told by God. – Hans Christian Andersen
• Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last final awakening. – Walter Scott
• Nothing can happen more beautiful than death. – Walt Whitman
• To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. – Thomas Campbell, Hallowed Ground

• Oh, may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again. – George Eliot
• The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. – Seneca
• Death is the opening to a more subtle life. – Juliette Adam
• The spiritual dimension of the Day of the Dead is central to the experience of most celebrants.- Stanley Brandes

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Heartwarming Dia de Los Muertos Quotes

• The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them. – Lois McMaster Bujold
• From my rotting body, flowers shall grow, and I am in them, and that is eternity. – Edvard Munch
• In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. – Robert Ingersoll
• Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. – Norman Cousins

• Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. – From a headstone in Ireland
• Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in. – George Bernard Shaw
• For death, Now I know, is that first breath Which our souls draw when we enter Life, which is of all life center. – Edwin Arnold
• We never bury the dead, son. We take them with us. It’s the price of living. – Mark Goffman and Jose Molina, Sleepy Hollow
• At the point of death, the pain is over – Jim Morrison
• 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
• He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us more potent — nay, more present — than the living man. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• The Mexican… is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love. – Octavio Paz
• Just a thin veil, between this world And that world of beauty and love.– Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, Just a Thin Veil
• It is as though they [the dead] were traveling abroad. – Marcel Proust

Quotes For The Day Of The Dead

• For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. – William Penn
• To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. – Thomas Campbell, Hallowed Ground
• After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. – J.K. Rowling
• For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? – Kahlil Gibran

• He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them. – Lois McMaster Bujold
• The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
• From my rotting body, flowers shall grow, and I am in them, and that is eternity. – Edvard Munch
• Oh, may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again. – George Eliot
• Thinking of you with a heart full of love and pride as we observe the Day of the Dead.