Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

When you attend a funeral, It is sad to think that sooner o' Later those you love will do the same for you. And you may have thought it tragic, Not to mention other adjec- Tives, to think of all the weeping they will do. (But don't you worry.

Low on his funeral couch he lies!

None of us, in our culture of comfort, know how to prepare ourselves for dying, but that's what we should do every day. Every single day, we die a thousand deaths.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Now you may write the eulogy for my funeral.

When anyone dies, it's sad.

That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. "Save them for my funeral," I'd said.

You're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated.

The dead's dead ... get 'em in the ground and look to the live ones.

They teach you how to handle life in England, but they don’t teach you a thing about death. There’s no book telling you what to do when your mum or dad dies.

Death makes sad stories of us all.

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

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

Death always leaves one singer to mourn.

And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.

Death is hacking away at my address book and party lists.

Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I get this petulant wish for ugly flowers and mourners, my mother's old familiar grief. Somebody I love to tend my future grave. Probably this is the wrong thing to be wishing for.

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.

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.

Death is a fearful thing.

Your father has to die, better he dies in your arms.

We do have trouble dealing with death, but it's the one thing that is guaranteed we are all going to have to do, and we are going to have to face it many times before we die ourselves.

Death belongs to the dying and those who love them.