Banquets Quote by Alan Seeger

“Before I lost my father, I never understood the rituals surrounding funerals: the wake, the service itself, the reception afterward,the dinners prepared by well-meaning…

— Wendy Webb

...an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.

— Arthur Miller

A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't even be…

— John Steinbeck

I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish to pay…

— James Boswell

“A funeral is supposed to be a way to say goodbye. You look inside yourself and find a place to put your grief, not…

— Beth Lincoln

A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be.

— Thomas Lynch

“People don’t gather after a death to mourn, but rather to reaffirm why life matters and to remember to exult in the only one…

— Heather Lende

At my age, I regard each funeral I attend as a personal triumph, because I was not the guest of honor.

— Judith McNaught

Lead such a life, that, when you die, the people may mourn you, and while you are alive they long for your company.

— Anonymous

“Funerals and memorial services are something that have to be gotten through. They honor the dead, but they’re for the living.”

— J.A. Jance

I done been to so many funerals.

— Jay Rock

I’m the god of funerals. I know every death custom in the world—how to die properly, how to prepare the body and soul for…

— Rick Riordan