Cities Quote by George Ade

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

— George Ade

A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't even be…

— John Steinbeck

You can spend your whole life trying to be popular, but at the end of the day, the size of the crowd at your…

— Frank Skinner

In New Orleans the funerals remind us that Life is bigger than any individual life, and it will roll on, and for the short…

— Tom Piazza

A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be.

— Thomas Lynch

In my hometown of New Orleans, grief is a public spectacle that, somewhat paradoxically, necessitates celebration. The dead are not mourned so much as…

— Clint Smith

I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.

— Thomas Lynch

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

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

— Aaron Eckhart

For sure, the funeral industry seems intensely cynical to me and I don't think it is HELPING people mourn.

— Meghan O'Rourke

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

It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because…

— Ann-Marie MacDonald