Funerals all over the world everywhere every minute. Shovelling them under by the cartload double-quick. Thousands every hour. Too many in the world. - James Joyce
Funerals are the rituals we create to help us face the reality of death, to give us a way of expressing our response to that reality with other persons, and to protect us from the full impact of the meaning of death for ourselves. Some funerals fulfil these functions beautifully. Others fail. - Alla Bozarth Campbell
Funerals are the rituals we create to help us face the reality of death, to give us a way of expressing our response to that reality with other persons, and to protect us from the full impact of the meaning of death for ourselves. Some funerals fulfill these functions beautifully. Others fail. - Alla Bozarth Campbell
There was that feeling one gets in a ride to a cemetery trailing a body in a coffin – an impatience with the dead, a longing to be back home where one could get on with the illusion that not death but daily life is the permanent condition. - E. L. Doctorow
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
Worldly 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 the night. - George Eliot
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