Family Quote by Lauren Kate

“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

“date — dinner and a movie. A funeral and burial weren’t supposed”

— Melissa Collins

“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

“I think she might at least have waited till the funeral was over,' said Amanda in a scandalized voice. 'It's her own funeral, you…

— Saki

“She had not died there. A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy…

— E.M. Forster

“She tried not to be gloomy at funerals. People lived, and died, and were remembered. It happened in the same way that winter followed…

— I Shall Wear Midnight Terry Pratchett

“...she acknowledged each person's nearness to the dead and helped the group in its struggle for order-who grieved most, whose pain was most real-because…

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

“When we get home from the funeral, the house is already thick with people. It feels like the whole town’s here, though of course…

— Catherine McKenzie

“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

“Funerals are for the living, I have always believed, and the job of the eulogist is to acknowledge the enormity of the loss they…

— Joe Biden

“But why was their tomb so neglected? Why had no one been to honor the dead this day? Why were there not flowers at…

— Sarah J. Maas

“There was one thing more he wanted from this funeral. He wanted to see the hearse pass by again, the body tilted for viewing,…

— Don DeLillo