"How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?"
- Jodi Picoult
"I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life."
- Markus Zusak
"I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
- Mark Twain
"The more death, the more birth. People are entering, others are exiting. The cry of a baby, the mourning of others. When others cry, the other are laughing and making merry. The world is mingled with ..."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
"I remembered back to leo's burial and holding your hand. I was eleven and you were six, your hand soft and small in mine. As the vicar said 'in sure and certain hope of the resurrection of eternal lif..."
- Rosamund Lupton
"Your coffin reached the monstrous hole. And a part of me went down into the muddy earth with you and lay down next to you and died with you."
"For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person. (on Margaret Thatcher)"
- Frankie Boyle
"O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes;Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching Earth;Lie close around her; leave no room for mirthWith its harsh laughter, nor for sound of sighs.She hath no questions, she h..."
- Jeffrey Eugenides
"It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because unless you do that, the loved one dies for you again and again."
- Ann-Marie MacDonald
"Graham Chapman, co-author of the "Parrot Sketch", is no more. He has ceased to be. Bereft of life, he rests in peace. He's kicked the bucket, hopped the twig, bit the dust, snuffed it, breathed his la..."
- John Cleese