Thomas Lynch Quotes

Funerals...are for the living.

A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't even be there.

Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground.

Funerals are all abstract ceremony.

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.

Funerals prove that someone is really gone.

The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,-- The sweeping up the heart, And putting love away We shall not want to use again Until eternity

Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?

Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning.

My grandfather had a wonderful funeral... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad.

Mr. Bernard died on a Monday, at the age of seventy-five, his body wasted. He lay in state for two days in the lobby of the Bernard Gursky Tower and, as he failed to rise on the third, he was duly buried.

What is there to do when people die - people so dear and rare - but bring them back by remembering?

How one deals with the death of a loved one is a highly personalized affair. Some people weep for days; others take a hike in the woods or count rosary beads.

Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.

I've just had some bad news. Tomorrow is the mother in law's funeral. And she's cancelled it.

When my dad passed away, I was under a lot of stress with planning a funeral, trying to pick out just the right flowers and pictures, and simply trying to find the right way to say goodbye.

It took about five years until we were properly over Freddie's passing. You learn to live with it.

After my father died, we went to church for a long time every day, and then every other day during the summer.

I want a state funeral with bells ringing across the land! Then I'd love the congregation to do the hokey cokey and for can-can girls to dance down the aisle. I've already bought the plot in Worcestershire next to my parents.

Nothing says "deeply in mourning" like canapés and free beer.

Growing up, there were a lot of funerals that I attended, and the adults at the funerals went out of their way to make sure that I wasn't traumatized or overly depressed by them. So death is always a celebration of life for me, and it's also hugely dramatic.

It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because unless you do that, the loved one dies for you again and again.

Good thing he's dead," Lula said, "or that would have hurt like the devil.