Martin Parr Quotes

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

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

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

I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

My father died in France, and my sisters and I went over with my mum to bring back his body. I remember going to the funeral parlour in France and being given a laminated menu of coffins, and thinking, surely there is an ice cream at the back of here!

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

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

We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto.

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.

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

Words do not pay for my dead people.

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

I touched Roger's bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I'm damn proud of that.

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.

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

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.

I like a decent funeral, and God knows in my family we've seen enough of them. Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.'

We shall lose one advantage of a man’s dying if we are to have a statue of him forthwith…. We should wait till their bones begin to crumble – and then avoid too near a likeness to the living.

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

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

Dignified and respectful quietude speaks much louder than pomp and circumstance when it comes to remembering those who died.

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

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

When anyone dies, it's sad.

There are no foodies at funerals.