Mordecai Richler Quotes

The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.

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

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

She's the sort of woman now,' said Mould, . . . 'one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too!

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.

Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.

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

He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.

Low on his funeral couch he lies!

Oh, hey, Claire,” she said, and blinked. “Where are you going?” “Funeral,” Shane said. On-screen, a zombie shrieked and died gruesomely. “Yeah? Cool! Whose?” “Hers.” Shane said.

Death always leaves one singer to mourn.

It's not the loss of life that makes the death bitter -- it's the obituaries.

People love to hate the gravedigger.

When I vacate this sack of old bones I won't care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don't make much fuss.

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.

My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.

Tombstones don't talk back.

You look like a talent scout for a cemetery.

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.

He would make a lovely corpse.

I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.

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.

If anyone at my funeral has a long face, I'll never speak to him again.