“[I]n contrast to the common belief that they are the world's greatest cynics, the best journalists are the world's great idealists. They have experienced firsthand the great soothing balance of human existence. For every disgrace there is triumph, for every wrong there is a moment of justice, for every funeral a wedding, for every obituary a birth announcement.” WorldHumansMomentsBeliefJusticeCommonExistenceBirthBalanceTriumphJournalistFuneralContrastDisgraceGreat IdeaHuman ExistenceSoothingIdealistAnnouncementsObituary Author:Anna Quindlen
“I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.” ShouldPersonsArtPhilosophyHistoryBirthFuneralMournAbolish Author:Baron de Montesquieu
“Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me--I've ducked it like root canal. Still there's no denying the fact that marriage ranks right up there with birth and death as one of the three biggies in the human safari. It's the only one though that we'll celebrate with a conscious awareness. Very few of you remember your arrival and even fewer of you will attend your own funeral.” HumansStillsHardFactsRememberThreeTermAwarenessBirthConsciousRootsCelebrateFuneralFewerArrivalsCanalsBirth And DeathConscious AwarenessSafariBiggieRoot CanalsBiggy Author:Andrew Schneider
“In Ethiopia, food is often looked at through a strong spiritual lens, stronger than anywhere else I know. It's the focal point of weddings, births and funerals and is a daily ceremony from the preparation of the meal and the washing of hands to the sharing of meals.” KnowsHandsSpiritualStrongBirthStrongerPreparationMealsFuneralLensesCeremonyWashingEthiopiaFocal Point Author:Marcus Samuelsson
“Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.” LifePersonsFunnyDeathDyingBirthInvolvedGrievingFuneralDeath And DyingRejoiceBirth And DeathDying DeathFunerals And DeathCurmudgeonBirth Life Author:Mark Twain
“Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every eulogy reminds me to deepen my dash, that place on the tombstone between our birth and our death.” PeopleEndsHateBirthFuneralButtonsPausesComfortingEulogyTombstonePause Button Author:Regina Brett
“A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.” MenDeathThreeBirthLateUnionsToo LateDevicesFuneralRegisterBaptismClumsyHowards End Book:Howards End Source: Howards End
“Gerald Westerby, he told himself. You were present at your birth. You were present at your several marriages and at some of your divorces, and you will certainly be present at your funeral. High time, in our considered view, that you were present at certain other crucial moments in your history.” MomentsCertainViewsBirthDivorceCrucialFuneralCrucial Moments Author:John le Carre