Consolation Quote by Henry David Thoreau

There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least…

— Miguel de Cervantes

I worry that friends will slowly become professional pallbearers, waiting for each death, of their lovers, friends and neighbors, and polishing their funeral speeches;…

— David Wojnarowicz

“People don’t gather after a death to mourn, but rather to reaffirm why life matters and to remember to exult in the only one…

— Heather Lende

Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.

— John Dryden

Death makes a beautiful appeal to charity. When we look upon the dead form, so composed and still, the kindness and the love that…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair…

— Fay Weldon

That was one of the most fundamental and sacred duties good friends and families performed for one another! They tended the flame of memory,…

— Dean Koontz

...The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they…

— Alexandre Dumas

“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

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

— Thomas Lynch

If one drops dead in the street, friends and loved ones are shocked, stricken, but a long lingering death loses all nobility and drama,…

— Alanna Knight

“Perhaps we become accustomed to our grief and, as it becomes increasingly familiar, increasingly part of the emotional landscape, it becomes a dullness. But…

— David Rieff