Funeral Quotes · Page 11

I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it!..

— Mark Twain

What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.

— Delmore Schwartz

“He says that I'm as subtle as a fart at a funeral.”

— Martin Crosbie

Vanity's like a funeral an everyone's at my wake.

— Jeffree Star

When I was 14, during Kim Il-sung's funeral, I wondered, 'How could a god die?'

— Lee Hyeon-seo

I would prefer not to throw myself on a funeral pyre. Please come back to me.

— Eloisa James

Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions.

— Herman Melville

After Auschwitz, I no longer cry at funerals.

— Charlotte Delbo

How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

— Jodi Picoult

There are songs about abortions, about slashing your arms with razors, about imagining your own funeral in New Orleans, about rock stars…

— Courtney Love

I've been at the funerals of a lot of people in my neighborhood. Sometimes when I sit back and relax, I think…

— Carmelo Anthony

“Black funeral dress. Black heels. Black headband in my hair. Death has a style all it's own. I'm glad I don't have…

— Courtney C. Stevens

“Showing his usual preoccupation with himself, he left detailed instructions about his funeral but didn’t bother to address the succession.”

— Lars Brownworth

Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true

— Horace

My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made…

— Shirley Manson

I've always found the most tragic things funny. I was always the guy laughing at the funeral.

— Andrew Gurland

I had this struggle of, what do I do to make sure my brother is still part of everything that I do?…

— Taysom Hill

To pay for my father's funeral I borrowed money from people he already owed money to. One called him a nobody. No,…

— Philip Schultz

There will be no funeral! Before I get too old and ill, I'll go to South America and live among the Pemon…

— Brian Blessed

“After a moment he added, "Though if you do find it necessary to execute me, I request that my funeral include a…

— Curtis Craddock

We just found out my little brother has a peanut allergy, which is very serious I know. But still I feel like…

— Anthony Jeselnik

Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the…

— Isaac Butt

Everybody in New York, including police horses, dresses fashionably, and whenever I'm there, even in my sharpest funeral-quality suit with no visible…

— Dave Barry

“Today, a couple with 'just married' tags collided head-on with a hearse carrying two coffins in the back, both of a married…

— Anthony Liccione

Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side,…

— Mark Helprin

The rationale for tenure is still valid. But the system has turned the academy into one of the most conservative and costly…

— Francis Fukuyama

Paraphrased: When Chuang Tzu was about to die, his disciples began planning a splendid funeral. However some disciples expressed concern that given…

— Zhuangzi

“There had never been a funeral in our town before, at least not during our lifetimes. The majority of dying had happened…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I came home [after funerals] and I thought if I go back to California, where I had a small house, I don't…

— Gene Wilder

“It seems like our town has closed down these days leading up to the funeral. Old people still sit on their porches…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me--I've ducked it like root canal. Still there's no denying the fact that…

— Andrew Schneider

“... People like to know what they are getting ahead of time. Thus, McDonald's, Wal-Mart, F.W. Woolworth: store-brands maintained and visible across…

— Neil Gaiman

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.

— Nazr Mohammed

One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke.

— Rajneesh

I delayed my father's funeral because of cricket.

— Virat Kohli

“Don't you just hate it when you go to a friend's funeral and you get kidnapped?”

— James Patterson

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

— Emily Dickinson

I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.

— Markus Zusak

An evangelizer must never look like someone who has just come back from a funeral.

— Pope Francis

...an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.

— Arthur Miller