Death Quote by Benjamin A. Saunders

“Because there are times when a person needs a little bitty death and doesn't even know it. As for me, I substitute the act…

— Clarice Lispector

Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.

— Aaron Eckhart

“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

“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

Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens…

— Ambrose Bierce

Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" - as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments.…

— Ambrose Bierce

“It is when death is rendered graphically, is televised so to speak, that you sense an eerie separation between your condition and yourself. A…

— Don DeLillo

Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every…

— Regina Brett

'I shall have heaven and earth for my coffin and its shell; the sun and moon for my two round symbols of jade, the…

— Zhuangzi

The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show…

— P. J. O'Rourke

FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that…

— Ambrose Bierce