Quotes by Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Quotations about Funerals

A funeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by e >>

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor o >>

As grand and griefless as a rich man's funeral. >>

On a day of burial there is no perspective -- for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was -- to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De