Memorial Service Quotes

“Chris Hedges said that Michael Jackson's memorial service was a variety show with a coffin, that MJ transformed himself through surgery and perhaps female hormones from a brown-skinned African American male to a chalk-faced androgynous ghoul with no clear sexual identity.”
― Chris Hedges

“To live is to owe life to die.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms

“Death is freedom from life.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Millions of people died on each and every day at the end of which millions of people deemed a beautiful day, or even the best day of their lives.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A second is a step taken by the living towards death.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“To be pained by someone’s death is to make their death about you.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms

“We are born old enough to die.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Every life is a different path to death.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Life is the inside of death.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Some people are gone, but not forgotten. Some are still here, but already forgotten.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“By saying only good things about the deceased during their funeral, we make it seem as if they were perfect … and are being auctioned.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Escaping death is a temporary victory.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We get a taste of death, not when we’re asleep, but when we awake.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Like great ecologists, great pessimists make us see the beauty of death.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“No matter how long you are going to live, you are going to die now.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Living is the outside of dying.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms

“Life gets half of its beauty from death.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Almost every funeral is attended by at least a few people whose funerals the person being buried thought he or she would attend.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana