#funeral

Be aware of this truth that the people on this earth could be joyous, if only they would live rationally and if they would contribute mutually to each others' welfare. This world is not a vale of sorrows if you will recognize discriminatingly what is truly excellent in it; and if you will avail yourself of it for mutual happiness and well-being. Therefore, let us explain as often as possible, and particularly at the departure of life, that we base our faith on firm foundations, on Truth for putting into action our ideas which do not depend on fables and ideas which Science has long ago proven to be false. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#clemens-vonnegut #freethinker #funeral #science #skeptic

Funerals, I had decided, are for the living. ↗

— John Green

#funerals #true #death

It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#darkness #enter #form #funeral #like

Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it will be met possibly with a protest or a demonstration. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#demonstration #each #family #funeral #loved

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#death #funeral #i #insanity #level

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night. ↗

— George Eliot

#coarse #effect #faces #funeral #grating

If you don't go to other men funerals they won't go to yours. ↗

— Clarence Day

#go #men #other #won #you

Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#against #around #funeral #high #humanists

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car. ↗

— Steven Wright

#clown #died #friend #friends #funeral

The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral. ↗