Quotes & Sayings About Paying Respects

THE SLEEK BLACK AUDI ROLLED to a stop in the parking lot overlooking the cemetery, but none of the three men inside had any intention of paying respects to the dead. The hour burned past midnight, and the grounds were officially closed. — Becca Fitzpatrick

Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever. — Robert Frost

*Paying one's last respects* is about the payer, not the paid. (Who attends the funeral - and who doesn't - is the deceased's last worry.) — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We are, in many respects, in a moral and spiritual free-fall in our country, and we are paying a terrible price. — Joel C. Rosenberg