Funeral Quote by Jessica Mitford Download Open image “Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control.” — Jessica Mitford ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Funeral Funny Industry Inspirational Love
“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 Copy Share Image
For sure, the funeral industry seems intensely cynical to me and I don't think it is HELPING people mourn. — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Funerals cost so much money, and are likely to be an additional source of stress in this recession - it's sad that we don't… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you love helping people, and you love trying to bring comfort and peace to their life at a very, very difficult time, youre… — Steve Southerland Copy Share Image
Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived. — Aaron Eckhart Copy Share Image
A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be. — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
“... People like to know what they are getting ahead of time. Thus, McDonald's, Wal-Mart, F.W. Woolworth: store-brands maintained and visible across the entire… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I discovered that Human Nature was not, as I had always supposed, a fixed and unalterable entity, that wars are not caused by a… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
Alas, poor Yorick! How surprised he would be to see how his counterpart of today is whisked off to a funeral parlor and is… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty. — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the aspirant middle class with an assist from… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
Funeralese has had its ups and downs. The word 'morticians,' first used in Embalmers Monthly for February, 1895, was barred by the Chicago Tribune… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
the whole point of muck-raking, apart from all the jokes, is to try to do something about what you've been writing about. You may… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
Things on the whole are faster in America; people don't stand for election, they run for office. If a person says he's sick, it… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public. — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
“After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when full and in fear that I will continue to eat unwanted food just because it's staring at me, I will place my… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
The most important thing I learned [...] was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive… — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image
The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry,… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Growing up, there were a lot of funerals that I attended, and the adults at the funerals went out of their way to make… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ...… — Edward Eggleston Copy Share Image
I've got no idea when I am going to retire. Whenever they pick me up and take me to the funeral home, I guess. — Colonel Sanders Copy Share Image
My father? A hard drinking man from the 70's. We actually have no pictures of my dad where he is not holding a beer.… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
At my funeral, if one said, 'Nick was a generous person,' trust me I won't be doing cartwheels in my coffin. Recognition from people… — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image