Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time. — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
If anyone at my funeral has a long face, I'll never speak to him again. — Stan Laurel Copy Share Image
“We the living are to blame for the painfulness of being dead.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The fire was nothing now but a funeral of smoke, dead and dying, simultaneously.” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows. — Sri Yukteswar Giri Copy Share Image
“You should always go to other people funerals, or they wont go to yours.” — George Herman Ruth Copy Share Image
Lord Randolph Churchill was the chief mourner at his own protracted funeral. — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery Copy Share Image
“*Paying one’s last respects* is about the payer, not the paid. (Who attends the funeral — and who doesn’t — is the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I like a decent funeral, and God knows in my family we've seen enough of them. Looking through family photographs now is… — Matt Roper Copy Share Image
Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true — Horace Copy Share Image
I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made… — Shirley Manson Copy Share Image
I've always found the most tragic things funny. I was always the guy laughing at the funeral. — Andrew Gurland Copy Share Image
Life let us cherish, while yet the taper glows, And the fresh flow'ret pluck ere it close; Why are we fond of… — Johann Martin Usteri Copy Share Image
Your coffin reached the monstrous hole. And a part of me went down into the muddy earth with you and lay down… — Rosamund Lupton Copy Share Image
Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Orthodox Christians have the habit of claiming all great men, all men who have held important positions, men of reputation, men of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Squawking pierced the funeral's hushed atmosphere as hundreds of black birds flew overhead in a rush of beating wings. They settled on… — Michelle Hodkin Copy Share Image
In the godforsaken, obscene quicksand of life, there is a deafening alleluia rising from the souls of those who weep, and of… — Ann Weems Copy Share Image
As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others… — Horace Copy Share Image
You only get one shot at this life. Some days you'll fly and some days you'll fall. Live so when your toes… — Uncle Phil Copy Share Image
It's not what I'd want for at my funeral. When I die, I just want them to plant me somewhere warm. And… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
The night was dark, and a cold wind blew, driving the clouds, furiously and fast, before it. There was one black, gloomy… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Oh, Caddy," said Saffron miserably. "I know. It's awful. But I'm going. We all should." "It will be so sad." "You have… — Hilary McKay Copy Share Image
One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke. Don't get attached to anything. This attachment… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The Romans feared their dead. In fact, Roman funeral customs derived from a need to propitiate the sensibilities of the departed. The… — Catharine Arnold Copy Share Image
“Is — is any of this real?" she asked. "Are you real?" He lifted a hand to her cheek, his fingers brushing… — Kelly Creagh Copy Share Image
Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side,… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Do you really want to know why you lost?” I asked. “Do you really have an answer?” he countered. “You need to… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
You have your wonderful memories," people said later, as if memories were solace. Memories are not. Memories are by definition of times… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
People dress up for funerals. Why not dress up to celebrate that you’re alive? — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it!.. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends. — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
Noose around a choking heart. Eternity torn apart. Slow toll now the funeral bells. — Nightwish Copy Share Image
Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
