Quotes About Funeral

People don't gather after a death to mourn, but rather to reaffirm why life matters and to remember to exult in the only one we'll ever have. We hold funerals, memorials, celebrations—whatever you want to call them—to seek and to find the heart of the matter of this trip we call Life.

I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she had a sad little funeral in Montparnasse in Paris. It was rainy. It was all wrong. And I was thinking, 'God, she loved life so much.'

In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.

There is something irresistibly funny about a funeral. More basically, I think the point is that beyond the deepest tragedy, there is laughter. Even in the midst of tragedy, there is always the possibility for it.

Too often, when transgender people die, family members or funeral homes will end up dressing a body of a transgender person in the garments of the gender that they were assigned at birth instead of their gender identity. They're often dead-named and misgendered.

Wherefore all these last offices and ceremonies that concern the dead, the careful funeral arrangements, and the equipment of the tomb, and the pomp of obsequies, are rather the solace of the living than the comfort of the dead. If a costly burial does any good to a wicked man, a squalid burial, or none at all, may harm the godly.

My child died last night—and now I shall be alone again, if I must really go on living. They will come tomorrow, strange, hulking, black-clad men bringing a coffin, and they will put him in it, my poor boy, my only child.

Ha empezado la última misa, más bien el funeral del Imperio romano de Oriente, pues, por última vez, se celebran

professional mourners

made him late to the funeral. He carried

One of my first public performances was singing hymns at a funeral for a friend of our family.

I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.

What will we bury him in?" she asked, struggling with another shovelful of wet dirt.

Their wives, lavishly rouged and powdered, looked as if they had just come from a coffin fitting.

Biden's grandson Robert "Hunter" Biden II handed him a photo taken of the two of them at his father, Beau's, funeral. He was then nine years old, and Biden had bent down to comfort him with his hand cupping the boy's chin. Corners of the right wing online had lit up with wild allegations about Biden's gesture, suggesting Biden was a pedophile. The younger Biden told his grandfather he knew a campaign could be nasty.

putting on his funeral home voice, which made him sound like an NPR host.

That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. Save them for my funeral, I'd said.

A stiff breeze lifted the hair from my head. At my feet, the city doused its lights in sleep, its buildings blackened, as if for a funeral.

Come off the wall, for God's sake. Why break your neck?" "Ah, do you love me so well?" "I love you well, you fool. Not well enough to pay for your funeral, and how should poverty-stricken Estemba afford it?" "Romulan, my good angel, I suppose we would have to steal the money from some hapless one, as Montargo always does.

Four days after his own funeral, Albert Wilkes came home for Tea.

BED. Put to bed with a mattock, and tucked up with a spade; said of one that is dead and buried. You will go up a ladder to bed, i.e. you will be hanged.

Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows' Eve. Everything seemed cut from soft black velvet or gold or orange velvet. Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like the plumes of funeral parades.

One dark day we will wake to find a suffocating blanket of cats has covered the entire globe like a mewling funeral shroud.

It was the most hilarious thing that has ever happened," Pigeon agreed. "I'm just worried it might cost me my life. And that my mom won't be able to stop eating fudge long enough to hold a funeral. They'll probably just dump me in a hole in the backyard.