Cremation Quotes:

When you are sad or in pain or sick or you witness any cremation then you actually learn the many truths of life.

- Neem Karoli Baba

topic: Pain, Sick, Cremation, Truth Of Life

purification in fire. public cremation

- Janet Fitch

topic: Fire, Cremation, Purification

One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to Mother Nature of the material elements composing the physical and astral corpses, brought about by the burning.

- Annie Besant

source: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Annie Besant, Mabel Collins, George Robert Stow Mead (1892). “Theosophical Review”

topic: Mother, Lying, Restoration, Cremation, Sanitary

The song is ended, but the melody lingers on...

- Irving Berlin

source: Title of song (1927)

topic: Song, Prayer, Memorial, Inspirational Death, Memorial Stone

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Life Wisdom, Live Life To Its Fullest

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

- Jack Lemmon

topic: Death, Ends, Endless Love, Everlasting Love, Meaningful Death

I am preparing myself for death. When I go to sleep, I try to keep myself smiling. So that when I die, I have a smile on my lips. I want an electric cremation. I don't want any poems or fuss after that. And for heaven's sake, don't bring back my ashes. Flush them down the toilet if the crematorium refuses to keep them. If they tell you that I am dead, I want you to give a big laugh.

- Zohra Sehgal

topic: Sleep, Giving, Laughing, Cremation

Cremation has become the most popular form of burial in the United States... People used to want a big, thick granite stone, their names carved into with a chisel. I was here dammit! Cremation is like you're trying to cover up a crime. Burn the body. Scatter the ashes around. As far as anyone's concerned this whole thing never happened.

- Jerry Seinfeld

topic: Names, People, Trying, Cremation, Chisels

Never. Till my last breath I will work. To retire there is only one place-the cremation ground.

- Dhirubhai Ambani

topic: Inspirational, Powerful, Lasts, Cremation

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Moving On, Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Sorrow And Happiness, Sorrow Love

I think you should automatically donate your organs because that would turn the balance of organ donation in a huge way. I would donate whatever anybody would take, and I'd probably do the cremation bit.

- George Clooney

topic: Thinking, Balance, Way, Organ Donation, Cremation

More than a hygienic method of disposing of the dead, cremation enabled lovers and comrades to be mingled together for eternity:

- Catharine Arnold

source: Catharine Arnold (2008). “Necropolis: London and Its Dead”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

topic: Together, Lovers, Eternity, Cremation

When you are sorrowful, look again.

- Khalil Gibran

source: Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

topic: Sympathy, Condolences, Death Of A Loved One, Sorrow And Happiness, Sorrow Love

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Sympathy, Missing You, Death, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

I don't want to spend a fortune on my cremation urn, but I really do want to look nice at my memorial service.

- Lynn Flewelling

topic: Nice, Memorial, Want, Memorial Service, Cremation

Little kids' minds are very, very strong. They bend. There's a lot of tensile strength and they don't break. We start our kids off on things like "Hansel and Gretel," which features child abandonment, kidnapping, attempted murder, forcible detention, cannibalism, and finally murder by cremation. And the kids love it.

- Stephen King

source: High Times Magazine Interview with Martha Thomases, John Robert Tebbel, October 1981.

topic: Strong, Children, Kids, Cremation, Hansel And Gretel

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

- Roger Caras

topic: Life, Dog, Sorry, Man And Dog, Spaniels