Alan Moore Quotes

The beautiful uncut hair of graves.

When anyone dies, it's sad.

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

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.

If we had a party every time someone died on 'The Following,' we'd never get anything done.

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

Tombstones don't talk back.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

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

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.

I worked in Licorice Pizza when John Lennon was killed. I had the day off, but I came in anyway because people needed a place to mourn.

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.

Loss is inevitable - you have to be blind or naive to think otherwise.

Now you may write the eulogy for my funeral.

My sister died in Brooklyn.

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

Death makes sad stories of us all.

sometimes there's nothing to say about death.

Rafael, the Rat King, stared at the carnage with black-button eyes. "She is dead." "Ding dong, the witch is dead.

death had just shred a tear

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 recall the night that President McKinley died. I was working at the time at a theatre in St. Louis. The oppressive feeling was in the air. I could not make the people laugh.

I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.