Funeral Quote by Thomas Lynch Download Open image “A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be.” — Thomas Lynch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Funeral Good fun Life Needs
“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 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
I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning. — Humphrey Bogart Copy Share Image
FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears. The savage dies --they sacrifice a horse To bear to happy hunting-grounds the corse. Our friends expire --we make the money fly In hope their souls will chase it… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share
Frankly, I'm not much for funerals unless it's absolutely an obligation. I don't feel it serves much of a purpose to go and see… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't even be… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I had this theory. It was based loosely on the unremarkable observation that the old are always looking back with longing while the young,… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
“The advance of our technology is coincidental with the loss of our appetite for ethical questions that ought to attend the implications of these… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
Whatever’s there to feel, feel it – the riddance, the relief, the fright and freedom, the fear of forgetting, the dull ache of your… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
“The bodies of the newly dead are not debris nor remnant, nor are they entirely icon or essence. They are, rather, changelings, incubates, hatchlings… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
“The living have to live with it. You don’t. Theirs is the grief or the gladness of your death, theirs is the loss or… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
“When we bury the old, we bury the known past, the past we imagine sometimes better than it was, but the past all the… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
Whatever's there to feel, feel it—the riddance, the relief, the fright and freedom, the fear of forgetting, the dull ache of your own mortality.… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear. — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
“There are those, too, who are ethnically predisposed in favor of funerals, who recognize among the black drapes and dirges an emotionally potent and… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort. — Thomas Lynch 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
“Well, they took the neck bones down from the Royal Oaks tree. Rest of the bones they separated from the chains on the ground.… — Sarah E Wright 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
“What about your funeral, eh?” She asks. “You mean the one that is never going to happen ever because I am going to gather… — Sara Wolf 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
“I feel like I just went to my own funeral. and I didn’t like the eulogy” — Lane Pryce 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