Giacomo Matteotti Quotes

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

Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.

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

Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it.

Funerals prove that someone is really gone.

To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life--there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

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.

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die.

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

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.

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.

As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

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

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

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

A piece of each of us died.

My sister died in Brooklyn.

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.