Saying, 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying, ' I apologize.' Except at a funeral. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral. — Marina Abramovic 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
How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury? — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If 180 million people want to be undead, that’s their funeral, but I happen to like being alive. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why should I be sad? Everyone has to die. If you have a body, it's too late to cry. It's only funerals… — Rachel Klein Copy Share Image
“I'm telling you, Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interrupt you at his own funeral.” — John Green Copy Share Image
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“We should have a funeral," he said. Pan held his hands clasped in a tent on his lap, and he bowed his… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the… — Bernard Ramm Copy Share Image
As many bands as you heard [in New Orleans], that's how many bands you heard playing right. I thought I was in… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
“People don’t gather after a death to mourn, but rather to reaffirm why life matters and to remember to exult in the… — Heather Lende Copy Share Image
The Bible is not a script for a funeral service, but it is the record of God always bringing life where we… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
On the left is the realist tradition of the 19th century, with its impulse to social description, radical criticism and meditation on… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
I soon began to dream. ... I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. ... I left my… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“She blew a warm breeze on his face and rustled his hair and embraced him in a warm haze and he felt… — Annette J Dunlea Copy Share Image
“As they gently lowered it into the earth, all stared silently at the coffin but one: a young woman of twenty-five who… — Renate Linnenkoper Copy Share Image
Tell me about your family," I said. And so she did. I listened intently as my mother went through each branch of… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
My wife made me watch this documentary about the Iraq War, and there was a really powerful moment where they followed some… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
In the First World War, people would be receiving letters from loved ones who had been dead for weeks, and they would… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The earth covered with a sable pall as for the burial of yesterday; the clumps of dark trees, its giant plumes of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
One night in Tokyo we watched two Japanese businessmen saying good-night to each other after what had clearly been a long night… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
![“As many bands as you heard [in New Orleans], that's how many bands you heard playing right. I thought I was in Heaven playing second trumpet in the Tuxedo Brass Band -- and they had some funeral marches that would just touch your heart, they were so beautiful.” quote by Louis Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/332/louis-armstrong-7258_band_as-many-bands-as-you-heard-in-new-orlean_102795.jpg)
