A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.

— Grace Hansen

“Well, if the funeral was mine I’d have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.” I was…

— Charles Bukowski

“Is — is any of this real?" she asked. "Are you real?" He lifted a hand to her cheek, his fingers brushing her jaw.…

— Kelly Creagh

A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.

— Julie Burchill

As a pastor, you get invited into the most poignant moments of people's lives. Whether it's a wedding or a funeral or a hospital…

— Rob Bell

For sure, the funeral industry seems intensely cynical to me and I don't think it is HELPING people mourn.

— Meghan O'Rourke

When you're doing exactly what you want to do, it's not tiring. You've been planting these seeds, and finally, you have a full garden…

— Colman Domingo

You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

— Walter Hagen

“The best horror novels open up, "It was beautiful summer day and the smell of flowers emanated throughout the air.”

— Justin Alcala

Life today may be depressing but take time to smell the flowers and I'm pretty sure you'll have a whole new outlook on things.

— Senoraroy

Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers -grey heliotrope And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette Comes fairly in, and silent chorus…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Don't hurry, don't worry, and don't forget to smell the flowers.

— Travis Rice

“Walk in the rain, smell flowers, stop along the way, build sandcastles, go on field trips, find out how things work, tell stories, say…

— Bruce Williamson

“We are all surrounded with so much static energy, that it is actually crucial to develop the ability to remove that and to flow…

— C. JoyBell C

I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then.

— Anonymous