Death Ceremony Sayings

#1. My own spirit, soul, and body are my nearest machinery for sacred service.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#2. Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If we have a social formula to guide us and do not have to extemporize, we feel better able to handle life.

Amy Vanderbilt

#3. I can't tell a lie - not even when I hear one.

John Kendrick Bangs

#4. The wedding was in Monterey, a sombre boding ceremony in a little Protestant chapel. The church had so often seen two ripe bodies die by the process of marriage that it seemed to celebrate a mystic double death with its ritual.

John Steinbeck

#5. An awe so quiet I don't know when it began.
A gratitude had begun to sing in me.
Was there some moment dividing song from no song?
When does dewfall begin?
When does night fold its arms over our hearts to cherish them?
When is daybreak?

Denise Levertov

#6. Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial.

Tina Brown

#7. You can't take back an act you were able to think.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#8. Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head

James Baldwin

#9. Father Nicanor was against a religious ceremony and burial in consecrated ground.
Ursula stood up to him. In a way that neither you nor I can understand, that man was a saint,

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#10. A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other ... until death do them join.

Elbert Hubbard

#11. The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their consent.

Emmeline Pankhurst

#12. With ceremony, with forms of politeness and reassurance, they borrowed the waters of the River and its little confluents to drink and be clean and irrigate with, using water mindfully, carefully. They lived in a land that answers greed with drought and death. A difficult land: aloof yet sensitive.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#13. There is a sort of melancholy pleasure to be had out of a funeral, with its pomp and ceremony, but I shrank from a death-bed.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#14. When you have to deal with a beast, you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true.

Harry S. Truman

#15. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying says that death is the graduation ceremony, while living is just a long course in learning and preparing for the next journey. If we acknowledge death as the beginning, then how can we fear it?

Nikki Sixx

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

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan