Albert Camus Quotes

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

I done been to so many funerals.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you; a few may be close to right, none exactly right.

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.

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.

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.

My dad died of a stroke.

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

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

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.

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

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

For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.

I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing.

Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously.

The beautiful uncut hair of graves.

Now you may write the eulogy for my funeral.

My sister died in Brooklyn.

I'm not desensitized to death.

People deal with death differently; some even laugh at funerals.

We knew that Father was loved in Orissa. But the ocean of emotion that greeted us on his death was an eye-opener.

When Rajesh Khanna died, I cried so much, my husband was confused.

You don't get dead and there not be consequences.