271 Quotes About Funeral

I love you best, and I'll miss you forever.

In perpetuum, frater, ave atque vale. (Forever and ever, brother, hail and farewell.)

(About a woman's funeral) Do you remember the part in The Wizard of Oz when the witch is dead and the Munchkins start singing? Think that kind of happiness. I swear every woman there was ready to break into song. Maybe a few of the men, too. (p. 80)

I wear all black to remind you not to mess with me because I'm already dressed for your funeral.

How quickly, how neatly the chaos of a living person could be reduced to an insignificant box.

You are despicable and such cowards that you won't even share your dead bodies with the Earth, but put them inside wooden and metal coffins to "protect" them. From what?

It was like a bomb had just gone off in the kitchen, and instead of cleaning up the rubble, people were stepping around it and eating mini-quiche.

When I can no longer go forward, even by an inch, I lay my head on the ground and wait to die. I’m too tired to be frightened. Above me is blackness, and all around me is blackness, and the forest sounds are a symphony to sing me out of this world. I am already at my funeral.

it is sad to fill a grave with a person full of potential yet completely emptied of anymore possibility to try it once again.