Quote by Ellen Meloy

“Death! mysterious, ill-visaged friend of weak humanity! Why alone of all mortals have you cast me from your sheltering fold? Oh, for the peace…

— Mary Shelley

“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

“All I know about this fine, sweaty life, my own or anyone else’s, is that in a little while I’ll rise up and leave…

— Raymond Carver

“machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our graves”

— William Shakespeare

“At the core, for each member of our family,there is an inconsolable sadness lodged like a sword cimented in stone.”

— Thomas Grayboys

“Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funeral.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Grief broke down in phrases And extrapolated lines From me without myself Tear-stained pillow of stone I felt I was lying Beside him in…

— Edward Hirsch

“When I arrived at the graveyard, Silla and her brother were sitting together snacking on cookies. They both wore jeans and sweaters and had…

— Tessa Gratton

“You are my favorite person. I want to be buried next to you. we'll have a shared tombstone. It'll read, 'Holmesy and Daisy: They…

— John Green

“When the maids pinch and pull me into a gown, I feel like a corpse being dressed for her funeral.”

— Victoria Aveyard

“It's sad to wander about the graveyard of my tired memory, where all hurts have been forgiven, where every sin has been more than…

— Teffi

“He called me an asshole and said, “I'll bury you!” like some comic book villain. I wanted to fucking scream my head off—I'm not…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo