Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
Your father never sold his country—never forget my dying words.... This country holds your father's body. Never sell the bones of your father and mother.
Thunder Rolling Down the Mountain
I'm quite tentative when it comes to biopics because they cross a line into intrusiveness or exposing someone who isn't alive or around to draw a line or defend themselves.
I am a spiritual person. I'm a Catholic. I treat my patients, the dead patients, as live patients. I believe there is life after death. And I talk to my patients. I talk to them, not loudly but quietly in my heart when I look at them. Before I do an autopsy, I must have a visual contact with the face.
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
I never speak ill of dead people or live judges.
If you a real true guy you don't talk about a guy after he is deceased.
In order to know a community, one must observe the styles of its funerals and know what manner of men they bury with most ceremony.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
John Hurt was pretty bad. I know it's pretty terrible to besmirch the memory of a dead man, but he was really rude to me.
I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.
Let my body be delivered to the earth without attention to the place where it lies; nothing should be associated with my dusty remains. Shame on him who draws any attention to a rotted flesh that is already no longer mine: he is worshipping the worms nibbling it.
I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.
I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive.
A president can't go to every memorial service.
Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them.
Dead things should be buried and not eaten.
It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.
If you don't go to other men's funerals, they won't go to yours.
The universal practice of closing the eyes of the dead may be thought to have originated in the desire that he might be prevented from seeing his way.
The one thing I've learnt is that you don't want to be nasty about anybody, unless they've dropped dead. And the annoying thing is that most of the people that I know who've dropped dead are really great.
She led the way. Eyeless sockets of the dead seemed to stare at them as they passed. "These are cool," Dan decided. "Maybe I could-" "No, Dan," Amy said. "You can't collect human bones." "Awww.
One thing I learned is that it's never OK to walk through a cemetery dressed as a mummy - even if that was a shortcut on the way to the costume party.
I'm not around real dead people all that often - most people aren't - but when you are, you tend to be very, very respectful and quiet, and people do tend to whisper 'cause you're trying to show massive amounts of respect, but if this is your daily life, you have to figure out a way to go about it and not go insane by the time you reach Friday.
But sometimes I fear that the people of my country can unite only beside victims' bodies, over coffins and in cemeteries. Like tribesmen who dance around old totems, we ignore the living and can only appreciate the dead.
