Farewell Quote by Robert Byrne

The decision to rely heavily on high-altitude air power, target urban infrastructure and repeatedly attack heavily populated towns and villages has reflected a deliberate…

— Seumas Milne

Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come to the…

— Jonathan Franzen

“The only time they ever throw anything away is when it's really and truly broken, and then they make a big deal about it.…

— Ruth Ozeki

“Life gets half of its beauty from death.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A president can't go to every memorial service.

— Nancy Gibbs

A woman I loved [Andi Parhamovich] was killed in Baghdad in January 2007 – al-Qaeda in Iraq took credit for it … The memorial…

— Michael Hastings

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

— Harold MacMillan

I think we need to not look at sorrow and happiness as opposites that cannot co-exist. They can and do co-exist. I have preached…

— Randy Alcorn

“We are born old enough to die.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

These days, when people are alone, or feel a moment of boredom, they tend to reach for a device. In a movie theater, at…

— Sherry Turkle

“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 have asked to have no funeral, and no memorial service. I hate other people's and would certainly not appreciate my own.

— Charles Saatchi