Daniel Barenboim Quotes

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

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

We treated all of the dead with dignity.

My only rule: I never photographed the face of the dead, ever, out of respect for the families.

Firemen have a culture of death. There are rituals, carefully constructed for the living, to process the dead.

There are no foodies at funerals.

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto.

I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

I touched Roger's bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I'm damn proud of that.

At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

I have my name Cory on my left arm, and I have my mom's name on my right with a cross. She passed away while I was still in high school, so I got that on my right arm.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

Dignified and respectful quietude speaks much louder than pomp and circumstance when it comes to remembering those who died.

When someone important to you, someone that's played a big role in your life, when they're gone... When you write about them or pay tribute to them, you want to do it in a way that's thoughtful.

Speake not of a dead man at the table.

Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."

Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief, tends to degrade the rites and respect they seek to accord to the deceased person who was once their own.

With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.

Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave.

Him who is dead and gone honor with remembrance, not with tears.

Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.