Clarence Darrow Quotes

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

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

I turn to the 'Telegraph's' obituaries page with trepidation.

I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'

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

Death is not my best subject.

I have asked to have no funeral, and no memorial service. I hate other people's and would certainly not appreciate my own.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.

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

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.

Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

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

Now, I'm the only living member of that group. There was the six of us originally and they're now all gone.

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know.

It gives a fellow an awful shiver to hear the first shovelful of dirt and gravel rattle down upon the coffin; but after it is covered, it falls gently and makes no sound. The feeling of rest is perfect. There's no more nagging, no more pain!

I don't know what they'll say when I die. I don't give a damn, but they'll probably cry.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

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