He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“It is a rare blessing to not want to live a second longer than you will live.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved. — Jeanie Cameron Copy Share Image
“I swear, you are the only girl I know who spends more time fantasizing about her funeral than her wedding.” — Linda Budzinski Copy Share Image
“Mist to mist, drops to drops. For water thou art, and unto water shalt thou return.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
If you're dressed for my funeral, it's too casual. If it's just street clothes, then you must be scaring the tourists. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Don't cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
At my age, I regard each funeral I attend as a personal triumph, because I was not the guest of honor. — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
When Malcolm X was assassinated I was working at the Apollo. They brought his body to the Unity Funeral Home, which was… — Etta James Copy Share Image
“She had not died there. A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
The kings of terrors, the last enemy, will never be able to breach the pearly gates and disturb the bliss of heaven!… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
Relax, Medea. We’ve come to see your mother. (Tory) Your funeral. (Medea) It’s always so good to see you, too. You’re just… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Obviously if you are an accountant, a criminal lawyer, a president, or a senator, or if you work in a funeral parlor,… — Jean Pigozzi Copy Share Image
Imagine yourself at your funeral. Ask yourself what you want your family and friends to say about you. How will you be… — Robert Cheeke Copy Share Image
“Some people will each start investing more of their salary on ‘their’ house and spending less of it on ‘their’ car or… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“When we get home from the funeral, the house is already thick with people. It feels like the whole town’s here, though… — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
There wasn't a funeral per se. I buried [Gilda Radner] 3 miles from her house that she had bought just shortly before… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
Some other memories of the funeral have stuck in my mind. The old boy’s face, for instance, when he caught up with… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Ceremony assists people to adjust to change (a marriage ceremony does this for families), to recognize achievement (a classic example is a… — Dally Messenger Copy Share Image
“One of the hardest things you will ever have to go through is the death of a child. The second hardest thing… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Beside him a tiny elderly woman was leaning on a cane, studying him with curiosity. Since good manners seemed to require that… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
I'd been on a road trip right out of college, with a buddy of mine. It was uneventful. We didn't get laid.… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
“You going to wear black for that funeral?” he asked, looking down at the continent-sized bruise on my arm. “What are you… — Zoya Tessi Copy Share Image
I had been at the newspaper for a few months. It wasn’t regarded as the paper, it was their paper. There was… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The only thing they can get me for is running a funeral parlor without a license. — John Wayne Copy Share Image
Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping. — Quintus Ennius Copy Share Image