Caitlin Doughty Quotes

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.

Low on his funeral couch he lies!

When the friends we love the best Lie in their churchyard bed, We must not cry too bitterly Over the happy dead.

Death is a fearful thing.

One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

The autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

I done been to so many funerals.

Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.

He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.

The dead they sleep a long, long sleep; The dead they rest, and their rest is deep; The dead have peace, but the living weep.

George Harrison's passing was really sad, but it does make the afterlife seem much more attractive.

I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.

Passing away" is written on the world and all the world contains.

The problem with death is absence

Moms Mabley said you have to say good things about the dead. I say, 'He's dead. Good.'

Then, with an enormous rush of meadow-filled wind, the green candle went out, and my best friend died.

Have you noticed that only death arouses our emotions? How we love thee friends who have just passed away, right? How we admire those master who no longer speak, their mouths full of dirt. We them we are not obligated.

A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.