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Top 20 Thomas Lynch Quotes (2025 Update)

Thomas Lynch Quote: “A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be.”

1. “A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be.”

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Thomas Lynch Quote: “There’s no easy way to do this. So do it right: weep, laugh, watch, pray, love, live, give thanks and praise; comfort, mend, honor, and remember.”

2. “There’s no easy way to do this. So do it right: weep, laugh, watch, pray, love, live, give thanks and praise; comfort, mend, honor, and remember.”

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Thomas Lynch Quote: “The flush toilet, more than any single invention, has ‘civilized’ us in a way that religion and law could never accomplish.”

3. “The flush toilet, more than any single invention, has ‘civilized’ us in a way that religion and law could never accomplish.”

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Thomas Lynch Quote: “Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments...”

4. “Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments...”

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Thomas Lynch Quote: “So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.”

5. “So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.”

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Thomas Lynch Quote: “The bodies of the newly dead are not debris nor remnant, nor are they entirely icon or essence. They are, rather, changelings, incubates, hatchlings of a new reality that bear our names and dates, our image and likenesses, as surely in the eyes and ears of our children and grandchildren as did word of our birth in the ears of our parents and their parents. It is wise to treat such new things tenderly, carefully, with honor.”

6. “The bodies of the newly dead are not debris nor remnant, nor are they entirely icon or essence. They are, rather, changelings, incubates, hatchlings of a new reality that bear our names and dates, our image and likenesses, as surely in the eyes and ears of our children and grandchildren as did word of our birth in the ears of our parents and their parents. It is wise to treat such new things tenderly, carefully, with honor.”

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Thomas Lynch Quote: “I’m lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I’ll make the effort.”

7. “I’m lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I’ll make the effort.”

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Thomas Lynch Quote: “It hurts so bad that I cannot save him, protect him, keep him out of harm’s way, shield him from pain. What good are fathers if not for these things?”

8. “It hurts so bad that I cannot save him, protect him, keep him out of harm’s way, shield him from pain. What good are fathers if not for these things?”

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Thomas Lynch Quote: “If I were assigned poems I suppose I’d write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done.”

9. “If I were assigned poems I suppose I’d write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done.”

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Thomas Lynch Quote: “When we bury the old, we bury the known past, the past we imagine sometimes better than it was, but the past all the same, a portion of which is inhabited. Memory is the overwhelming theme, the eventual comfort.”

10. “When we bury the old, we bury the known past, the past we imagine sometimes better than it was, but the past all the same, a portion of which is inhabited. Memory is the overwhelming theme, the eventual comfort.”

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Thomas Lynch Quote: “Grief is the price we pay for being close to one another. If we want to avoid our grief, we simply avoid each other.”

11. “Grief is the price we pay for being close to one another. If we want to avoid our grief, we simply avoid each other.”

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Thomas Lynch Quote: “Watching my parents, I watched the meaning change, of what it was that undertakers do: From something done with the dead, to something done for the living, to something done by the living – everyone of us.”

12. “Watching my parents, I watched the meaning change, of what it was that undertakers do: From something done with the dead, to something done for the living, to something done by the living – everyone of us.”

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Thomas Lynch Quote: “But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker’s background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.”

13. “But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker’s background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.”

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Thomas Lynch Quote: “I’m more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It’s not a retail experience. It’s an existential one.”

14. “I’m more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It’s not a retail experience. It’s an existential one.”

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Thomas Lynch Quote: “Wary of being caught unawares, we planned our parenthood, committed to trial marriages with pre-nuptials, and pre-arranged our parents’ funerals – convinced we could pre-feel the feelings that we have heard attend new life, true love, and death.”

15. “Wary of being caught unawares, we planned our parenthood, committed to trial marriages with pre-nuptials, and pre-arranged our parents’ funerals – convinced we could pre-feel the feelings that we have heard attend new life, true love, and death.”

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Thomas Lynch Quote: “The living have to live with it. You don’t. Theirs is the grief or the gladness of your death, theirs is the loss or gain of it. Theirs is the pain and the pleasure of memory.”

16. “The living have to live with it. You don’t. Theirs is the grief or the gladness of your death, theirs is the loss or gain of it. Theirs is the pain and the pleasure of memory.”

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Thomas Lynch Quote: “We deal with love by dealing with the ones we love, with sickness by dealing with the sick, and with death by dealing with the dead. And.”

17. “We deal with love by dealing with the ones we love, with sickness by dealing with the sick, and with death by dealing with the dead. And.”

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Thomas Lynch Quote: “Still, I wasn’t as certain as I tried to sound. And I wondered why it wasn’t underputter – you know, for the one who puts them underground. Surely to take them seemed a bit excessive. I mean if they were dead. They wouldn’t need the company on the way. Like you would take your sister to the drug store but you would put your bike in the garage. I loved the play of words and the meanings of them.”

18. “Still, I wasn’t as certain as I tried to sound. And I wondered why it wasn’t underputter – you know, for the one who puts them underground. Surely to take them seemed a bit excessive. I mean if they were dead. They wouldn’t need the company on the way. Like you would take your sister to the drug store but you would put your bike in the garage. I loved the play of words and the meanings of them.”

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Thomas Lynch Quote: “Wanting to be near my bread and butter business which was my hairstyling salon, I have done little touring during my lifetime. I hate all this moving around from hotel to hotel, packing and unpacking. I know many entertainers agree with me on this subject.”

19. “Wanting to be near my bread and butter business which was my hairstyling salon, I have done little touring during my lifetime. I hate all this moving around from hotel to hotel, packing and unpacking. I know many entertainers agree with me on this subject.”

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Thomas Lynch Quote: “Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.”

20. “Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.”

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Thomas Lynch Quote: “Revision and prediction seem like wastes of time. As much as I’d like to have a handle on the past and future, the moment I live in is the one I have. Here is how the moment instructs me: clouds float in front of the moon’s face, lights flicker in the carved heads of pumpkins, leaves rise in the wind at random, saints go nameless, love comforts, souls sing beyond the reach of bodies.”

21. “Revision and prediction seem like wastes of time. As much as I’d like to have a handle on the past and future, the moment I live in is the one I have. Here is how the moment instructs me: clouds float in front of the moon’s face, lights flicker in the carved heads of pumpkins, leaves rise in the wind at random, saints go nameless, love comforts, souls sing beyond the reach of bodies.”

— Thomas Lynch

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