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“If I should die, and leave you here awhile
Be not like others sore undone, who keep
Long vigils by the silent dust and weep.
For my sake, turn again to life, and smile,
Nerving thy heart and trembling hand to do
Something to comfort weaker hearts than thine.
Complete these dear unfinished tasks of mine,
And I, perchance, may therein comfort you!”
― Mary Lee Hall

“Whenever I’m not writing, time trudges forward with the maddening, mortifying, miserable, morose, moribund pace of a funeral procession.”
― Cat Winters, The Raven's Tale

“Death frees us from even ourselves.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“There is a correlation between how many years we will live and how many loved ones we will bury.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Send not to know
For whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.”
― John Donne, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

“I've never seen a nation more quick at finding joy in a sad situation than the Irish at a funeral.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Vocation of a Gadfly

“It’s funny, Lorraine said now, as the scene appeared in front of them. You always wonder about your funeral. How big? Who’ll show up? In the end it’s meaningless. You realize, once you die, that a funeral as for everyone else,not you.”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

“Death avoidance is not an individual failing; it's a cultural one. Facing death is not for the faint-hearted. It is far too challenging to expect that each citizen will do so on his or her own. Death acceptance is the responsibility of all death professionals - funeral directors, cemetery managers, hospital workers. It is the responsibility of those who have been tasked with creating physical and emotional environments where safe, open interaction with death and dead bodies is possible.”
― Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

“He knew as deeply as he knew anything that sedation was the prelude to anxiety, stimulation the prelude to exhaustion and consolation the prelude to disappointment, and so he lay on the red velvet sofa and did nothing to distract himself from the news of his mother’s death.”
― Edward St. Aubyn, At Last

“It is our natural and moral duty as consumers of other living things to someday die.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Losing some faculties is worse than losing your life.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“When you pick up a casket, you feel the weight of it very differently than you think you will. We carry it. It carries us. The real weight is carrying each other.”
― Courtney C. Stevens, Dress Codes for Small Towns

“There was an old joke. Miller didn't remember where he'd heard it. Girl's at her own father's funeral, meets this really cute guy. They talk, hit it off, but he leaves before she can get his number. Girl doesn't know how to track the guy down.
So a week later, she kills her mom.
Big laugh.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“Everyone is no-one-to-be.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We are forever getting closer to the dreaded moment that will finally confirm that we will not live forever.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The shorter one’s life, the longer the list of loved ones one will not have had to bury.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Comfort thy self, as I do, gentle Queen,
With hope of sharp, unheard of, dire revenge.--
He bids me to provide his funeral,
And so I will; but all the Peers in France
Shall mourners be, and weep out bloody tears,
Until their empty veins be dry and sere:
The pillars of his hearse shall be his bones;
The mould that covers him, their City ashes;
His knell, the groaning cries of dying men;
And, in the stead of tapers on his tomb,
An hundred fifty towers shall burning blaze,
While we bewail our valiant son's decease.”
― William Shakespeare, King Edward III

“Anyone could spare the time, stopped whatever they were doing to watch the funeral go by. It was a custom. It was important to know who had died, under what circumstances, to whom the person was related, and who the mourners were following the hearse, and why they felt the need to attend this particular funeral. There were few events that commanded the total attention of the community as much as a passing funeral. Its size was commented upon, and the life story of the deceased, whatever was known of it, whispered from person to person. It was more than a funeral they watched. In a way, it was a small lesson in community history, and everyone, for those minutes, was a diligent scholar.”
― Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb

“We who are left behind watch you on your way. The long prison of the years unlocks itsâ€� iron doors..go free now, into the beautiful land. Forgive us who suffer in this clouded world. Guide us and wait for us, as we wait for you. We will meet again. We will meet again.”
― William Nicholson, Firesong

“There was an old joke. Miller didn't remember where he'd heard it. Girl's at her own father's funeral, meets this really cute guy, They talk, hit it off, but he leaves before she can get his number. Girl doesn't know how to track the guy down.
So a week later, she kills her mm.
Big laugh.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“Some people were killed by their celebration of the fact that they were still alive.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We lose a significant portion of our lives attending ceremonies for people who have lost theirs.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It is a rare blessing to not want to live a second longer than you will live.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“This was more like a funeral, although even funerals weren't this silent as people murmured their condolences. She was paying to be here and it was worse than a funeral.”
― Liane Moriarty, Nine Perfect Strangers

“We are all our own bodiesâ€� visitors.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“In few places is there such a high concentration of hypocrisy as at a writer’s funeral.”
― Juan Gabriel Vásquez, La forma de las ruinas

“There is a time for passionate dissent, but there is never a time for dancing upon a grave.”
― David Alejandro Fearnhead

“Unfortunately, being dead from inside doesn’t reduce the cost of the funeral.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Go hence, O Death, pursue thy special pathway
apart from that which gods wont to travel.
To thee I say it who hast eyes and hearest: touch
not our offspring, injure not our heroes.”
― Rig Veda

“Some people murder your dreams and then attend the funeral too.”
― Nitya Prakash