Ye country comets, that portend No war, nor prince's funeral, Shining unto no higher end Than to presage the grasses fall. . . . — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
“a funeral reminds you to be alive, doesn’t it? It slaps you across the face and points out that there’s still warm… — Lydia Kang Copy Share Image
Michael O'Sullivan was my great friend. But I don't ever remember telling him that. The words that are spoken at a funeral… — Ian Bannen Copy Share Image
The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: "Too bad we can't get together more often". — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
We experienced a miscarriage at 13 weeks and then a few years later we lost our son Willem at 30 weeks. I… — Ben Fogle Copy Share Image
“The end When I die bang on cans Romp around in leaps and bounds Let whips crack in the air Call in… — Mário de Sá-Carneiro Copy Share Image
View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
I wrote "Miner's Prayer" after [grandfather] died. I'd gone back to his funeral, and he died in 1979. And I came back… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
'I shall have heaven and earth for my coffin and its shell; the sun and moon for my two round symbols of… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“Hey, listen,' I say. " Fascinating as this is, we've got to go now. I have to collect the invites for my… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
There are so many cruel decisions parents have to make when their child dies. The funeral director requested a sheet for the… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
“Tear up that funeral shroud—you are going to smother yourself in it. I am beauty, I am youth, I am life—come to… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
NBC announced that during the summer Olympics they will set a new record by airing over 1200 hours of coverage. Which is… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
“It" was continuing. The game was undeniably in progress. A long funeral procession, a crowd of peoplewearing black. A man in a… — Koushun Takami Copy Share Image
For sure, the funeral industry seems intensely cynical to me and I don't think it is HELPING people mourn. — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of entertainment. ” — George Ade Copy Share Image
The saddest face I ever saw on Martin Luther King was at the funeral of the four little girls slain in Birmingham,… — James A. Forbes Copy Share Image
“If it’s been more than 24 hours, you call the cops and I’ll buy the flowers. I’ll meet you at church, first… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Science advances one funeral at a time. Only when one generation passes away do new theories have a chance to root out… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“We were heading into the clumsy territory of my mother’s funeral, stretched-out silences, wrong smiles, the place where words didn’t work.” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals when their cheery effect is needed. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“I blink at the skyline visible through the window, knowing the only thing waiting out there for me is a funeral home.” — Amy Matayo Copy Share Image
RIP to all my exs, the funeral will be held at Never Again Baptist Church located across from The Lies You've Told… — Kiana JWilson Copy Share Image
“Nothing offers better public relations fodder than something you can rescue and love intensively for a month and then be filmed burying… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If you want a business that's guaranteed to always have customers, enter the funeral business. — KM II Copy Share Image
Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“On the day of his mother’s funeral, to the boy I loved more than I had ever loved anything or anyone, I… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
I've had to write a column an hour after I've come back from a funeral. A deadline is a deadline, I mean,… — Laurie Notaro Copy Share Image
“Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funeral.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the… — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
“There was a time when one didn't attend a wedding, unless they were invited. In the near future, attending funerals will adopt… — Charmaine J Forde Copy Share Image
Presidential hopeful Jeb Bush has released all of his emails. I'd like to release all of my emails. I've got nothing but… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
You wish death upon someone you know if they were to die you would he he first one at the funeral. — Kevin McCarty Copy Share Image
Everyone has to go to a funeral at some time and you need to be dark and sombre, and in a black… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
@griffsie I'm playing Nickelback at your funeral to make sure you're really dead and not faking it. — Leila Copy Share Image
I order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria,… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
“Heaven and earth are my inner and outer coffins. The sun, moon, and stars are my drapery, and the whole creation my… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image