The Madiba song may have ended, but its melody lingers on.

“After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not…

— Mitch Albom

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

— Rachel Nichols

“Well, they took the neck bones down from the Royal Oaks tree. Rest of the bones they separated from the chains on the ground.…

— Sarah E Wright

Christ never preached any funeral sermons.

— Dwight L. Moody

The most important thing I learned [...] was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive…

— Gavin Extence

“What about your funeral, eh?” She asks. “You mean the one that is never going to happen ever because I am going to gather…

— Sara Wolf

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

— T. S. Eliot

“I feel like I just went to my own funeral. and I didn’t like the eulogy”

— Lane Pryce

The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody…

— Philip Roth

Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry,…

— Edmund Spenser

Growing up, there were a lot of funerals that I attended, and the adults at the funerals went out of their way to make…

— Bryan Fuller

Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ...…

— Edward Eggleston

I've got no idea when I am going to retire. Whenever they pick me up and take me to the funeral home, I guess.

— Colonel Sanders

My father? A hard drinking man from the 70's. We actually have no pictures of my dad where he is not holding a beer.…

— Christopher Titus

At my funeral, if one said, 'Nick was a generous person,' trust me I won't be doing cartwheels in my coffin. Recognition from people…

— Nick Vujicic