quotations about funerals
The dead do not know the value of white sheets.
HAITIAN PROVERB
Enemies always attend each other's funerals. I guess it is a way of knowing they won.
M.C.V. EGAN
Defined by Others
Thou art gone to the grave; but we will not deplore thee,
Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb.
REGINALD HEBER
"At a Funeral"
Funerals are pretty compared to death. Funerals are quiet, but deaths not always.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
A Streetcar Named Desire
Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had much better been concealed; namely, that their vanity has survived themselves.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Funerals open a door normally closed, showing the raw humanity of so many.
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES
"Michael Jackson: The Black Tribal Funeral", The Moderate Voice, July 7, 2009