Funeral Quotes

I order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song or music.

Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ... unless it had been a first-class circus.

Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.

ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.

he must deny his right to himself, and he must realize who Jesus Christ is before he will bring himself to do it. Beware of refusing to go to the funeral of your own independence

It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because unless you do that, the loved one dies for you again and again.

How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.

A wedding is like a funeral, but with musicians.

I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning.

The Bible is not a script for a funeral service, but it is the record of God always bringing life where we expected to find death. Everywhere it is the story of resurrection.

My legacy to me is-when I drop dead and they're at my funeral - I want my three kids to get up and say, 'He's an awesome dad'.

Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.

Bill Clinton was doing Ku Klux Klan grand kleagel jokes at Byrd's funeral, saying, Oh, Robert C. Byrd, he used the - he was the grand kleagel. He just did what he had to do.

An evangelizer must never look like someone who has just come back from a funeral.

Funeral by funeral, theory advances.

A woman who feels ugly can go to the best party and have a terrible time, but a woman who likes the way she looks can go to a funeral and have a marvellous time.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral.

When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

Death was a big part of my life growing up. I went to lots of funerals.

My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.

The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.

But you know what? When I die, everybody is invited to come take a selfie at my funeral. Except for my enemies. They're not invited to the funeral, period.

I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.

Jesus ruined every funeral he attended including his own.

Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true

A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.

When I die, nobody cry at my funeral, in fact let's all have a party; I've lived the life of ten men. I lived all my dreams and more.

When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the other was deal with computers. And then I ended up being a computer programmer in a morgue.

In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.

After Auschwitz, I no longer cry at funerals.

I think weddings are sadder than funerals, because they remind you of your own wedding. You can't be reminded of your own funeral because it hasn't happened. But weddings always make me cry.

Don't go to the funeral until the day of the funeral - live this day.

A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put.

A eugoogoolizer...one who speaks at funerals...Or did you think I was too stupid to know what a eugoogooly was?

Life is a sport...drink it up.

Surveys show that the #1 fear of Americans is public speaking. #2 is death. That means that at a funeral, the average American would rather be in the casket than doing the eulogy.

Always remember this: If you don't attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.

It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.

Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it will be met possibly with a protest or a demonstration.

Picasso was a delightful, kindly, friendly, simple little man. When I met him he was extremely excited and overjoyed that his mother-in-law had just died, and he was looking forward to the funeral.

Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.

Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral. [Lat., Ultima semper Expectanda dies homini est, dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo et suprema funera debet.]