Quotes about Día de los Muertos are about keeping presence of loved ones in our hearts. They emphasize on how important it is to remember them and keeping them in our memories. In short it is about nature of life and death.

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Día de los Muertos quotes

Día de los Muertos quotes

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Best Día de los Muertos quotations

  1. A family is a circle of love, not broken by loss, but made stronger by the memories. – Unknown
  2. Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. – Rabindranath Tagore
  3. Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it. – Haruki Murakami
  4. Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. – Irish Proverb
  5. Día de los Muertos is not a day of sadness, but of joy, as we remember the laughter and love. – Unknown
  6. Every year, the path of marigolds leads our loved ones home. – Unknown
  7. For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. – Khalil Gibran
  8. Gone, but never forgotten. – Unknown
  9. In remembering, we keep them alive. – Unknown
  10. Las personas que amamos nunca mueren, sólo se adelantan en el camino. (Those we love never truly die, they just go ahead on the path.) – Mexican Saying
  11. Let us celebrate the lives of those who came before us. – Unknown
  12. Let us remember and celebrate those who have shaped our lives. – Unknown
  13. Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon. – Rossiter Worthington Raymond
  14. Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone. – Mitch Albom
  15. May the memories of our loved ones bring us comfort and peace. – Unknown
  16. Memories are the treasures that we keep locked deep within the storehouse of our souls. – Becky Aligada
  17. On Día de los Muertos, we celebrate the beauty of life and the sweetness of memory. – Unknown
  18. Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. – George Eliot
  19. Recordar es vivir. (To remember is to live.) – Mexican Proverb
  20. The altar is set, the candles are lit, and the memories shine bright. – Unknown
  21. The candle’s flame is a beacon for souls to find their way. – Unknown
  22. The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. – Seneca
  23. The dead return to feast with us, and we celebrate their lives with joy. – Unknown
  24. The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. – Cicero
  25. The love we give away is the only love we keep. – Elbert Hubbard
  26. The marigold’s scent guides the spirits home. – Mexican Tradition
  27. The memories we make are the legacy we leave. – Unknown
  28. The ones we love never truly leave us. – J.K. Rowling
  29. The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears. – Native American Proverb
  30. There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. – Aeschylus
  31. They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. – William Penn
  32. Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity. – Terri Guillemets
  33. To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead. – Samuel Butler
  34. To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time. – Elie Wiesel
  35. To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. – Thomas Campbell
  36. We are all stories in the end. – Steven Moffat
  37. We honor our ancestors by living fully and remembering deeply. – Unknown
  38. What is remembered, lives. – Hopi Proverb
  39. When we remember our loved ones, they live on in our hearts. – Unknown
  40. Your wings were ready, but our hearts were not. – Unknown
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