Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

A funeral was a great form of entertainment. A wake was a great form of entertainment.

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

Funerals...are for the living.

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

We treated all of the dead with dignity.

The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.

Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

Now you may write the eulogy for my funeral.

to participate in the funeral rights for tyranny.

A requiem is meant to bring comfort.

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

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

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

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

Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.

The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an inheritance.

If I talk about my father's funeral, as I did when I was promoting the last novel, 'Being Dead,' I'm not going to tell any lies, but there are certain things I'm not going to tell you, and I'm certainly not going to tell my grief.

I love a cardboard coffin. Both Mummy and Daddy went off in cardboard coffins, painted - Daddy's was rifle green. Beautifully made.

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.

I go to funerals. I go to earthquakes.

Firemen have a culture of death. There are rituals, carefully constructed for the living, to process the dead.

We don't do funerals in my family.

I done been to so many funerals.