Mary Roach Quotes

That's the formaldehyde. That's why Granny's so well-preserved.

Your words smell of corpses.

When I vacate this sack of old bones I won't care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don't make much fuss.

I wouldn't want to donate my body for scientific study.

The beautiful uncut hair of graves.

When I die bury me in smoke.

A corpse is what's left after waking too often.

Alas, poor Yorick! How surprised he would be to see how his counterpart of today is whisked off to a funeral parlor and is in short order sprayed, sliced, pierced, pickled, trussed, trimmed, creamed, waxed, painted, rouged and neatly dressed - transformed from a common corpse into a Beautiful Memory Picture.

Low on his funeral couch he lies!

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

Moms Mabley said you have to say good things about the dead. I say, 'He's dead. Good.'

When it's time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.

I don't want to go into a fridge at an undertaker's. I want you to keep me at home until the funeral. Please can someone sit with me in case I get lonely? I promise not to scare you.

He lies below, correct in cypress wood, And entertains the most exclusive worms.

Death makes sad stories of us all.

I do not propose to be buried until I am dead.

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.

GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.

When I die throw my body in the back and drive me to the junk yard in my Cadillac.

I want to be a pretty corpse.

Death always leaves one singer to mourn.

The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing which we most want, happens to be the only thing we never purchase--our coffin.

We may all host ourselves to death, and if we're all dead who will host our funerals?