Death Quote by Charles Benedict

“When my parents passed on, and we read their wills, we discovered something we didn’t at all expect, especially from our devoutly Catholic mother:…

— Dave Eggers

“[I]t seemed to me now that a Catholic church was the right companion for all these horrors. Didn't Catholicism deal with blood and resurrected…

— Elizabeth Kostova

“It is absurd and ridiculous, sometimes, the things that are said at funerals. The deceased have been promised celestial life and eternal life and…

— Spencer W. Kimball

“Death did this to people: making cowards, scapegoats, preachers and mourners of the living; while the dead – ignoble or not – became objects…

— Meghna Pant

“They realize that no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate can remove the legacy of a mean…

— Abraham Verghese

“Fernanda was scandalized that she did not understand the relationship of Catholicism with life but only its relationship with death, as if it were…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“During my first year as a pastor I performed funerals for 50 church members—and they were the wrong ones.”

— Roy Bell

“All the accounts of the burial of Jesus are somber, laced through with the silence of grief, the shock that violence does to one's…

— Megan McKenna

“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

“Who am I to decide what someone should or shouldn’t do? People skip funerals and memorials all the time, for all sorts of reasons.…

— Elle Kennedy

I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning.

— Humphrey Bogart

“Grief is not very different from illness: in the impetus of its fire it does not recognise lords, it does not fear colleagues, it…

— Eleanor of Aquitaine