The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand, the angels come to visit us and we only know them when they are gone.
George EliotDeath is not extinguishing the light, it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
Rabindranath TagoreI have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it instead of carrying it.
Erma BombeckWhy is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
Mark TwainIt's bleak, because I can't - many of us can't - hear her sweet voice, but it's great because she did live and she was ours. I mean African-Americans and white Americans and Asians Spanish-speaking - she belonged to us and that's a great thing.
Maya AngelouI seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
John BurroughsSecular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.
E. O. WilsonI never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that your memories should be personal.
Hedy LamarrFuneral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
Francois de La RochefoucauldI had a friend who was a clown. When he died all his friends went to the funeral in one car.
Steven WrightRome - the city of visible history where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
George EliotWorldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.
George EliotI used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself just the fact that I was breathing.
Chuck PalahniukAnd whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Walt WhitmanThose of us who have gathered here... we owe something from this minute on so this gathering is not just another footnote on the pages of history.
Maya Angelou