Friendship Quote by James Buchan

“It was death that the public was being cheated out of by the funeral industry, not money. The realistic interaction with death and the…

— Caitlin Doughty

“Having always observed that most of them who constantly took in the weekly Bills of Mortality made little other use of them than to…

— John Graunt

“I think about death all the time, but only in a romantic, self-serving way, beginning, most often, with my tragic illness and ending with…

— David Sedaris

“We are all alike; we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing. When one of us dies, they scarcely know where to…

— Willa Cather

“It is difficult to create a budget for life when we all cash out the same. Corpses have no currency." -The Years Before My…

— Amber Garibay

“In 1917 I was only beginning to learn that life, for the majority of the population, is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds, culminating…

— Siegfried Sassoon

“The other thing I know now, is that we survive grief merely and surely by outlasting it. The ongoing fact of the narrative eclipses…

— Gail Caldwell

“Funerals and memorial services are something that have to be gotten through. They honor the dead, but they’re for the living.”

— J.A. Jance

“Death has a price, and all who bargain with the dead must pay it.”

— Douglas Clegg

“How many people delay the kindness, the expression of love, until the person is dead, beyond their reach, and then try to atone for…

— Orison Swett Marden

Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave…

— Henry David Thoreau

“...death does leave a daunting array of practical tasks: all those possessions that you were forced to leave behind had to be sorted and…

— Rosamund Lupton