Mason Cooley Quotes

Now you may write the eulogy for my funeral.

Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.

Death always seems to be around me.

Death makes sad stories of us all.

Funerals are all abstract ceremony.

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.

And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.

Funerals...are for the living.

My dad died of a stroke.

My sister died in Brooklyn.

Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.

When anyone dies, it's sad.

Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.

Death was a big part of my life growing up. I went to lots of funerals.

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.

Death always leaves one singer to mourn.

I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.

I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.

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

I think because people are passing - people that we are aware of are passing at - I don't say a great pace, but it seems like people are dropping, and I think it's just making - there's a consciousness and there's sensitivity to it.

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead.

I know I am at the end. I shall never get better, dear.

Death is a fearful thing.

I had a friend, Melissa, who was 28 years old. She was my best friend's wife, and she was my wife's best friend. She died of breast cancer. When she passed away back in 2004 was the last time I cried.