What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends..

The Madiba song may have ended, but its melody lingers on..

I want Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D played at my funeral. If it isn't I shall jolly well want to know why..

A woman who feels ugly can go to the best party and have a terrible time, but a woman who likes the way she looks can go to a funeral and have a marv….

Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy..

Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived..

Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage..

What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps..

I sat in my desolation Withdrawn from all around, Feeling my life was a ruin, a failure. I was empty inside with the utter collapse of my being. I di….

If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral..

Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal fea….

These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with….

It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. So insane are we that we actually permit unmarried persons to immigra….

A psychiatrist once told me early in treatment, "Stop trying to make me like you," and what a sobering and welcome smack in the face that statement w….

We should not expect the state to appear in the guise of an extravagant good fairy at every christening, a loquacious companion at every stage of lif….

Sometimes funerals can be good. It reunites you with your cousins you haven't seen in a while..

Every morning I walk by a funeral home, and that's my productivity hack for how to make sure your to-do list is properly prioritized..

Oh, hey, Claire,” she said, and blinked. “Where are you going?” “Funeral,” Shane said. On-screen, a zombie shrieked and died gruesomely. “Yeah? Cool!….

You know how funerals are not for the dead, they’re for the living? Bachelor parties are not for the groom, they’re for the uncommitted..

Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions..

Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole..