Peter Hook Quotes

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

To me, New Order split up when Bernard and I stopped writing together. We started Joy Division together; we started New Order together.

Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.

Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.

I have to respect her family, and until they come and say, 'We're ready to do an Aaliyah album,' then I don't really want to come and try to get into that because that's very sensitive.

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

As you all know, Prince is no longer with us. It is extremely difficult for me, and that is why I have chosen not to discuss it.

We're a family with a pretty light sense of humor but, still, on the anniversary of my mom's passing we don't feel like getting 'colorful' and remembering her favorite foods. Every March 5th, the anniversary of her passing, we go to church and are sad for pretty much the rest of the day.

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

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

I've seen the video played over and over, and it replays in my head constantly. To be able to walk in his exact footsteps is an extremely huge honor, and I did this for him as much as I did it for my family to get some closure too.

Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them.

Michael died five years ago this January, and the first thing that really struck me about the script was the part about her peeling off from the funeral and just getting into a rowboat and having a real kind of cry where nobody was.

The bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose bodies are still walking around.

There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them.

Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.

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.

The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.

Now you may write the eulogy for my funeral.

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

'Movement' sounded like Joy Division, but 'Power, Corruption & Lies' is the first New Order record.

I do my best to make every word from my pen a cry from the heart for the souls of the dead.

I think it's very important to allow people into Ted Kennedy. Thousands of people lined the streets the day of his funeral.

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