"Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is."

-- Joyce Cary

#Grief Quotes #Funeral Quotes #Earth Quotes

“[S]ervants of darkness had no lasting joy in their service. In all of them the will for darkness was a perversion of the will for the light. In all but a few maniacs the satisfaction of the will for darkness was at all times countered by a revulsion which the unhappy spirit either dared not confess even to itself, or else rejected as cowardly and evil.”

Source : Olaf Stapledon (1974). “Darkness and the light”, Hyperion Pr
“If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education.”
“Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, areeffectively treated as a category of independent craftsmen or skilled workers producing a certain kind of marginal commodity.”
“Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.”

Source : William Ralph Inge (1927). “The church in the world: collected essays”, Ayer Co Pub
“And he who is forever talking about enemies / Is himself the enemy!”

Source : Christopher Logue (2015). “War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad”, p.215, Faber & Faber
“Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.”
“I don't worry much but I'm starting to worry a little.”
“I want to design my own clothing line. I'm very into fashion. It's something I really want to focus on when swimming is over.”

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