Anne Sexton Quotes

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

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

When the friends we love the best Lie in their churchyard bed, We must not cry too bitterly Over the happy dead.

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

The beautiful uncut hair of graves.

When anyone dies, it's sad.

Good thing he's dead," Lula said, "or that would have hurt like the devil.

If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.

Death makes sad stories of us all.

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.

There is a tear for all who die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave.

I am deeply saddened to hear the news of Dan's passing. He was a dear friend for many years. Dan & his music will live on in the great songs he shared with us all. My sincere condolences go out to Catherine and the entire Peek family. May he rest in peace.

Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.

Death is a fearful thing.

Tombstones don't talk back.

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

My dad died of a stroke.

Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.

My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.

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.

For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.

I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

My father died in France, and my sisters and I went over with my mum to bring back his body. I remember going to the funeral parlour in France and being given a laminated menu of coffins, and thinking, surely there is an ice cream at the back of here!