Cat and dog Quote by Various

“It was the funeral of a woman who had henpecked her husband, driven her kids half nuts, scrapped with the neighbors at the slightest…

— Various

“He held her and rocked her, believing, rightly or wrongly, that Ellie wept for the very intractability of death, its imperviousness to argument or…

— Stephen King

“The mourners clustered around the edge of the grave, paralyzed by the horror of this thing, this first discovery of death that was worse…

— Chris Cleave

“How could she trust this man, so imprecise with his words, to take care of the burial? To say there had been a loss…

— Jodi Picoult

A preacher was operated on for a hernia. As this was about the time of the first world war he was given ether. As…

— Art Linkletter

“I went into the living room and looked down at my mother’s torn body and shook my head. It was surreal. I guess some…

— Bobby Adair

“They meet in church basements and offer bandages to those wounded by the shrapnel of exploding families.”

— Margaret Atwood

“The members of the congregation looked as though they’d just dropped in for a rest on the way to the grave.”

— Åsa Larsson

“All the accounts of the burial of Jesus are somber, laced through with the silence of grief, the shock that violence does to one's…

— Megan McKenna

“Through the half-open door in one room of the huts I saw Pastor Bonhoeffer, before taking off his prison garb, kneeling on the floor…

— H. Fischer-Hüllstrung

“This is the comfort of the godly: the grave cannot hold them, and they live as soon as they die. For death is no…

— William Penn

“They died crying in their minds like little babies. They forgot the thing they were fighting for the thing they were dying for. They…

— Dalton Trumbo