Will Carleton Quotes

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

I have my name Cory on my left arm, and I have my mom's name on my right with a cross. She passed away while I was still in high school, so I got that on my right arm.

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.

To those of you mourn the loss of a loved one today, my heart goes out to you. We remember that the blessings that we enjoy as Americans came at a dear cost. Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we cannot ever fully repay. But we can honor their sacrifice, and we must. We must honor it in our own lives by holding their memories close to our hearts, and heeding the example they set.

Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see or smell.

He is dead, she thought bitterly, because we have forgotten him.

With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.

I have lost a brother and a best friend. The world has lost one of the greatest actors of all time.

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

I lost my brother when he was 30, and that was devastating for me. I don't know if I will ever get over it.

She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.

My grandparents had died in 1983, and suddenly my brother is out jogging before Mass, and he dies.

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.

Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.

Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.

Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell.

My father's body lies in a stone tomb high on a hill. People walk by, pause, think their own thoughts about him and move on, back to their own lives. I can never move on. He is everywhere.

Words do not pay for my dead people.

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

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

I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.