Hearse Quotes

“While still practising law, he'd run a hearse-rental agency. Then, later, he'd bought into a handkerchief factory in Baker Park. Their most famous innovation was the funeral hankerchief, a plain white cotton handkerchief with a black border. Not long afterwards he patented the first black-edged tissue. He'd made millions, apparently, though nobody knew what he'd done with the money. His only extravagance had been to install an elevator in the house, so he could move between floors without getting out of his wheelchair.

'So what did he mean about hearing money?' Jed asked.

'It's his factory across the river. He claims he can hear the money being made.”
― Rupert Thomson, The Five Gates of Hell

“The Harlots cry from Street to Street
Shall weave Old Englands winding Sheet
The Winners Shout the Losers Curse
Dance before dead Englands Hearse”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

“And a ride in a hearse tells us we’re all close to that final cruise . . . when the body dies and we move on. It’s just the body, man. It’s just the body. The soul’s already gone. So don’t be afraid of a dead body absent a soul. It’s empty, man. No resident. What you need to worry about is a living body that’s lost its soul. Now that is scary, man.” - Funk N. Wagnalls, owner of the Grim Reapers auto lot, a character in Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues.”
― David Mutti Clark, Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

“There was a deep boom, like the rolling in of an ocean wave. The hearse door had been slammed shut.”
― Eudora Welty, The Optimist's Daughter

“Cremation is the refusal to put a corpse to good use.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana