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- All who ask receive, those who seek find, and to those who knock it shall be opened. Therefore, let us knock at… — John of Damascus
- Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I get this… — Karen Russell
- The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is the character of a… — J.R. Miller
- CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager. — Ambrose Bierce
- Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true — Horace
- 'I shall have heaven and earth for my coffin and its shell; the sun and moon for my two round symbols of… — Zhuangzi
- Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the… — Henry David Thoreau
- I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to… — Robert Tappan Morris
- I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking… — Andrew Solomon
- Carve not upon a stone when I am dead, The praises which remorseful mourners give; To women's graves - a tardy recompense,… — Elizabeth Chase Allen
- Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the… — Karl Shapiro
- Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with… — Wystan Hugh Auden