Memorial traditions Quotes

What does one do about the dead? They live forever.

There is a remembrance of the dead to which we turn even from the charms of the living.

I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part of it, but I cannot accomplish it. I think there is no genuinely sentimental part to it. It is all grotesque, ghastly, horrible.

A nation that can't remember its dead will soon cease to be worth dying for.

Gavin saw a grave purely as a marker for the place where a corpse was decomposing; a nasty thought, yet people took it into their heads to visit and bring flowers, as though it might yet recover.

In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.

Can one do nothing for the dead? And for a long time the answer had been - Nothing!

When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet: And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget. I shall not see the shadows, I shall not feel the rain; I shall not hear the nightingale Sing on as if in pain: And dreaming through the twilight That doth not rise nor set, Haply I may remember, And haply I may forget.

Leave the dead to the Earth. They are not for us. - Valdr

People get way too much credit at funerals.