Rachel Cohn Quotes

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

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

My dad died of a stroke.

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

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

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.

All my friends are dying. That's why I always wear black.

Death is not my best subject.

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

Now you may write the eulogy for my funeral.

My sister died in Brooklyn.

When anyone dies, it's sad.

Funerals prove that someone is really gone.

Rain in the graveyard, and the world puddled into blurred reflections.

Death makes sad stories of us all.

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

Death always leaves one singer to mourn.

death had just shred a tear

I grieve for every death.

I know I am at the end. I shall never get better, dear.

Now, I'm the only living member of that group. There was the six of us originally and they're now all gone.

And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.

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

I had a friend, Melissa, who was 28 years old. She was my best friend's wife, and she was my wife's best friend. She died of breast cancer. When she passed away back in 2004 was the last time I cried.

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.