Quote by Donald Barthelme

“It's a funny phenomenon. You can never visit your own funeral, but if you want to see how people feel about you, commit a…

— Elizabeth L. Silver

“What's even more messed up than funerals, is the way people treat you after the funeral. Like you're diseased or something.”

— Denise Jaden

“Some people don’t attend funeral not because they don’t want to but they are not emotionally strong to see anybody GO.”

— Neeraj Bhanot

“Death does that:It makes everyone feel sentimental when in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“You see, by dint of will people can make a good showing for a time, but sooner or later there will come that unguarded…

— Richard J. Foster

“And unless one can observe the guilt and regret of the mourners, surely there is nothing satisfactory about being dead?”

— Truman Capote

“I would not have it understood, for a moment, that I or any of the Elders attend funerals to smother over the weaknesses of…

— Joseph F. Smith

“Funerals seem less about comforting the souls of these dearly departed than about comforting the people they leave behind.”

— Rin Chupeco

“The heart often turns rogue and makes decisions without informing us or providing advanced notice.”

— RJ Intindola – (Gandolfo) – 1987

“In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of entertainment. ”

— George Ade

“Death is something we shy away from, except in literature or television, when we tend to stare right at it.”

— Cath Crowley

“a funeral reminds you to be alive, doesn’t it? It slaps you across the face and points out that there’s still warm blood doing…

— Lydia Kang