April Winchell Quotes

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it.

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

Now you may write the eulogy for my funeral.

A funeral was a great form of entertainment. A wake was a great form of entertainment.

God bless the dead.

To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life--there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death.

With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto.

We treated all of the dead with dignity.

I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.

Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

On the fortieth day after his death, we held the ceremony, and I performed for the very first time.

Tombstones don't talk back.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Words do not pay for my dead people.

I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.

The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an inheritance.

I touched Roger's bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I'm damn proud of that.