Irvin S. Cobb Quotes

On the fortieth day after his death, we held the ceremony, and I performed for the very first time.

Now you may write the eulogy for my funeral.

I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.

Funerals should celebrate a life.

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.

Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it.

Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.

The only question now is which corpse gets the most flowers?

to participate in the funeral rights for tyranny.

Don't go to the funeral until the day of the funeral. Live this day.

I went to Jimmy Gandolfini's funeral, and when I was there, I realized Jimmy Gandolfini didn't have Twitter.

To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life--there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Obituaries were among my favorite to write because they have elements no other news stories have - a story from start to finish with a proper conclusion.

We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto.

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.

My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.

The French, perhaps more than any other nation, cherish the memory of their dead by ornamenting their places of sepulture with the finest flowers, often renewing the garlands and replacing such plants as decay with vigorous and costly ones.

I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

If anyone at my funeral has a long face, I'll never speak to him again.

One morning every spring, for exactly two minutes, Israel comes to a stop. Pedestrians stand in place, drivers pull over to the side of the road, and nobody speaks, sings, eats, or drinks as the nation pays respect to the victims of the Nazi genocide. From the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea, the only sounds one hears are sirens.

I know you aren't supposed to speak ill of the dead.