Funeral Quotes
On grief, ritual, and the people we bury.
These quotes treat the funeral as both ritual and revelation, one voice recalls growing up in a funeral home run by mortician parents, another admits delaying a father's funeral for a cricket match. Grief here is personal, sometimes even a little uncomfortable.
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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Advances Quotes
The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.
'Selfie' is the word du jour, and it became cause celebre at Nelson Mandela's funeral when the Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt took a selfie with U.S. President Barack Obama and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron.
An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.
After Quotes
When I was 14, during Kim Il-sung's funeral, I wondered, 'How could a god die?'
A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
I've been a fascinated observer of grand public funerals since I was a kid, starting with the life-altering black-and-white images of President John F. Kennedy's funeral.
Anything Quotes
I played a funeral convention once. York Casket Company pays well, in case anyone's wondering!
We experienced a miscarriage at 13 weeks and then a few years later we lost our son Willem at 30 weeks. I held him in my arms and had to organise his funeral.
I used to sing at funeral homes for families that didn't have a vocalist. I didn't get paid. I needed to sing.
