funeral words
As grand and griefless as a rich man's funeral.
- Sidney Dobell
At the end, one day I shall shut my eyes and close my mouth…and my feet shall be made ready for a journey. On that day shall I be an object of public display both in the sky and on the earth. On that day I shall refuse food that there might be enough for the living. On that day my kinfolk shall assemble. Those who do not know me shall come to know me; my enemies shall come to see and those who do not know me shall call out my praise names….
- Nnamdi Olebara
Black people have always clung to a genuine love for each other. That's why a funeral said so much. You can't let this person die as though it was nothing happening. A great loss had been suffered. I learned to cry at funerals.
- Vernon Jarrett
Dying is a very dull dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
- Somerset Maugham
Friends make pretence of following to the grave, but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people, and things they understand.
- Robert Frost