Funeral Quote by Janice Pariat

“Life is but a story told at one's funeral”

— Charles Slamowitz

“Because stories are how we share our lives and what we truly mourn when they are lost. Stories are what connect us to our…

— Grace Lin

“A funeral can go on for weeks, because few events in life are a better opportunity to tell stories.”

— Fredrik Backman

“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

“Before I lost my father, I never understood the rituals surrounding funerals: the wake, the service itself, the reception afterward,the dinners prepared by well-meaning…

— Wendy Webb

Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Funerals consist of older generations initiating the younger into another adulthood. Filling spaces of the one passed.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“When people told themselves their past with stories, explained their present with stories, foretold the future with stories, the best place by the fire…

— Jim Henson Productions

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

— Aaron Eckhart

“A funeral is supposed to be a way to say goodbye. You look inside yourself and find a place to put your grief, not…

— Beth Lincoln

“There is a time when death is an event, an ad-venture, and as such mobilizes, interests, activates, tetanizes. And then one day it is…

— Roland Barthes

“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