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"Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral. [Lat., Ultima semper Expectanda dies homini est, dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo et suprema funera debet.]"
"My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, and what have you. Because if they didn't, then the book would be hidden inside some pocket or other and as soon as whatever it was got under way I'd be found in a corner. That was who I was...that was what I did. I was the kid with the book."
"Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility."
"What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral."
"A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man."
"Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived."
"I 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."
"What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends."
"... the introduction of the doctrine of polygamy was the first time in my life that I desired the grave, and I could hardly get over it for a long time. And when I saw a funeral, I felt to envy the corpse its situation."
"With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage."
"The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it."
"Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole."
"Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love."
"And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."
"Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old."
"The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats."
"In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation’s funeral at our expense."
"I got so many emails and text messages, my phone blew up because it couldn't handle everybody. It's like almost being at your own funeral because of the way the headline read."
"There wasn't a funeral per se. I buried [Gilda Radner] 3 miles from her house that she had bought just shortly before we met. It was an old house, old colonial house, 1734. And there were just a few friends at the funeral, a nonsectarian cemetery. And an old friend of hers from junior high school or high school was the rabbi in town, and he performed the service."
"Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral."
