Montesquieu Quotes

I done been to so many funerals.

Funerals...are for the living.

My sister died in Brooklyn.

Then, with an enormous rush of meadow-filled wind, the green candle went out, and my best friend died.

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

Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?

We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.

Death always leaves one singer to mourn.

I grieve for every death.

I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.

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

You get to an age when you lose people close to you.

It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.

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.

Widow. The word consumes itself.

Do not weep for me.

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.

A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore.

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.

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

My dad died of a stroke.

Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.