271 Quotes About Funeral

I've never seen a nation more quick at finding joy in a sad situation than the Irish at a funeral.

Delay is not a help-mate. The cemetary is full of people who thought they could DO IT tomorrow. Do It Now!

The more death, the more birth. People are entering, others are exiting. The cry of a baby, the mourning of others. When others cry, the other are laughing and making merry. The world is mingled with sadness, joy, happiness, anger, wealth, poverty, etc.

Mist to mist, drops to drops. For water thou art, and unto water shalt thou return.

Death is freedom from life.

A bourgeois funeral is an artist’s worst nightmare.

After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not move quickly enough. No more playing music at half-empty night clubs. No more writing songs in my apartment, songs that no one would hear.

She then pulled her own hair ties and ebony ribbons free, letting her curtain of hair fall from the bun. She ruffled her hair to match her brother's. The rest of the family didn't even hesitate. Off went the ties and ribbons. Straight black hair. Smooth brown curls. Dark, wiry curls. The hair flowed free.

Death would be an extremely bad thing like most of us paint it, if being dead were painful.