“Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men”
Quintus Ennius
“While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.”
John Taylor
“I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.”
Thomas Lynch
“We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ''Blessed are they that mourn.''”
C.S. Lewis
“The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To expiate the pain of losing her firstborn son in the Iraq war, Cindy Sheehan decided to cheer herself up by engaging in Stalinist agitprop outside President Bush's Crawford ranch, ... It's the strangest method of grieving I've seen since Paul Wellstone's funeral. Someone needs to teach these liberals how to mourn.”
Ann Coulter
“We need it for our psyche. It's like group therapy. We've likened this to a jazz funeral, we mourn on the way there, and rejoice on the way back. We've got to start rejoicing!”
Arthur Hardy
