Funeral Quotes · Page 11

“This is Prue's funeral, can't we bury our sister in peace?!”

— Constance M. Burge

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

— Madonna Ciccone

I delayed my father's funeral because of cricket.

— Virat Kohli

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

— Emily Dickinson

I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.

— Markus Zusak

“Don't you just hate it when you go to a friend's funeral and you get kidnapped?”

— James Patterson

“He says that I'm as subtle as a fart at a funeral.”

— Martin Crosbie

Vanity's like a funeral an everyone's at my wake.

— Jeffree Star

I went to a funeral recently, and they handed out Kleenex before the funeral. Which I thought was cocky.

— Mike Birbiglia

I was waiting for my hearse. What came next was so much worse. It took a funeral to make me feel alive.

— Sixx AM

I have heard it said that winter, too, will pass, that spring is a sign that summer is due at last. See,…

— Maya Angelou

Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.

— Rabindranath Tagore

I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.

— Baron de Montesquieu

The funeral was over, at last I could cry. Except that I couldn't. My tears, kept in too long, had fossilized. They…

— Diane Setterfield

My legacy to me is-when I drop dead and they're at my funeral - I want my three kids to get up…

— Dana White

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

— Jodi Picoult

Everyone has experienced laughing at a funeral, and not even inappropriately. It could be a response to a moment of absurdity or…

— Harold Ramis

Sometimes, when full and in fear that I will continue to eat unwanted food just because it's staring at me, I will…

— Rachel Nichols

My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, and what have you. Because if they didn't, then…

— Neil Gaiman

“Except for my daughters, I have not grieved for any death as I have grieved for his . His was a great…

— Mark Twain

Surveys show that the #1 fear of Americans is public speaking. #2 is death. That means that at a funeral, the average…

— Jerry Seinfeld

“Sensei says funerals are not really for the dead. They are for those left behind. "The dead are long gone by the…

— Sandy Fussell

Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral. [Lat., Ultima semper Expectanda…

— Ovid

There will be no funeral! Before I get too old and ill, I'll go to South America and live among the Pemon…

— Brian Blessed

“I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, And Mourners to and fro Kept treading – treading – till it seemed That Sense…

— Emily Dickinson

“It seems like our town has closed down these days leading up to the funeral. Old people still sit on their porches…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

I came home [after funerals] and I thought if I go back to California, where I had a small house, I don't…

— Gene Wilder

“... People like to know what they are getting ahead of time. Thus, McDonald's, Wal-Mart, F.W. Woolworth: store-brands maintained and visible across…

— Neil Gaiman

Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me--I've ducked it like root canal. Still there's no denying the fact that…

— Andrew Schneider

“Royal summoned mourners. They came from the village, from the neighboring hills and, wailing like dogs at midnight, laid siege to the…

— Truman Capote

“Love is The funeral pyre Where I have laid my living body. All the false notions of myself That once caused fear,…

— Hafiz

I have never received full credit from the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army], because the men are very sexist and feel that…

— Kola Boof

Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions.

— Herman Melville

When I was 14, during Kim Il-sung's funeral, I wondered, 'How could a god die?'

— Lee Hyeon-seo

I would prefer not to throw myself on a funeral pyre. Please come back to me.

— Eloisa James

After Auschwitz, I no longer cry at funerals.

— Charlotte Delbo

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.

— Nazr Mohammed

One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke.

— Rajneesh

I kill that pussy but I don't go to the funeral.

— Lil Wayne

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

— Rosalind Russel