Mother and father Quote by Jean Sasson

“A funeral procession, the women scream until they fall down in a faint, the men hold them up, the boys cry silently sand swear…

— Claire North

“Through many countries and over many seas I have come, Brother, to these melancholy rites, to show this final honour to the dead, and…

— Catullus

“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

“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

“Who has not in his great grief felt a longing to look upon the outward features of the universal Mother; to lie on the…

— H. Rider Haggard

“Driven across many nations, across many oceans I am here, my brother, for this final parting, to offer at last those gifts which the…

— Catullus Gaius Valerius - Poem 101

“the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral,”

— Greg King

“God is coming to intersect us in our funeral processions”

— Louie Giglio

“And then later, at the funeral, members of the family, followed by the tenants and then the servants, had come one by one to…

— Diana Gabaldon

“A grieving son was given the opportunity to write parting words on a card at his mother's funeral. He quoted the verse, "And morning…

— Megan McKenna

“We do not acknowledge enough, I think, the clan and tribe of our friends, who are not assigned to us by blood, or given…

— Brian Doyle

“Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn…

— Anonymous