Funeral Quotes · Page 12

Weddings and funerals are when you figure out who your real friends are.

— Amy Dickinson

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

— Anonymous

“We do have funerals for the living," Jill said. "They're called birthday parties.”

— Andrew Shaffer

I foresee a great funeral contest over me.

— Alexander the Great

I kill that pussy but I don't go to the funeral.

— Lil Wayne

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

— Rosalind Russel

“Life is but a story told at one's funeral”

— Charles Slamowitz

There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.

— Haruki Murakami

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up…

— Emma Thompson

Life let us cherish, while yet the taper glows, And the fresh flow'ret pluck ere it close; Why are we fond of…

— Johann Martin Usteri

Your coffin reached the monstrous hole. And a part of me went down into the muddy earth with you and lay down…

— Rosamund Lupton

Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.

— Rabindranath Tagore

I went to a funeral recently, and they handed out Kleenex before the funeral. Which I thought was cocky.

— Mike Birbiglia

I was waiting for my hearse. What came next was so much worse. It took a funeral to make me feel alive.

— Sixx AM

I have heard it said that winter, too, will pass, that spring is a sign that summer is due at last. See,…

— Maya Angelou

“Losing Grandma, just when I'd found her again. A waterfall of flowers brightened her funeral, but they couldn't disguise the stench of…

— Ellen Hopkins

I don't want to go into a fridge at an undertaker's. I want you to keep me at home until the funeral.…

— Jenny Downham

“Lastly he looked at the face so caved and drawn among the folds of funeral cloth, the yellowed moustache, the eyelids paper…

— Cormac McCarthy

This is wine," Ghoolion said solemnly. "Wine is drinkable sunlight. It's the most glorious summer's day imaginable, captured in a bottle. Wine…

— Walter Moers

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

— Rachel Nichols

Everyone has experienced laughing at a funeral, and not even inappropriately. It could be a response to a moment of absurdity or…

— Harold Ramis

My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, and what have you. Because if they didn't, then…

— Neil Gaiman

I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish…

— James Boswell

“Except for my daughters, I have not grieved for any death as I have grieved for his . His was a great…

— Mark Twain

“Royal summoned mourners. They came from the village, from the neighboring hills and, wailing like dogs at midnight, laid siege to the…

— Truman Capote

“Love is The funeral pyre Where I have laid my living body. All the false notions of myself That once caused fear,…

— Hafiz

I have never received full credit from the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army], because the men are very sexist and feel that…

— Kola Boof

Granana doesn't understand what the big deal is. She didn't cry at Olivia's funeral, and I doubt she even remembers Olivia's name.…

— Karen Russell

Before you judge me as some kind of 'anything goes' language heathen, let me just say that I'm not against usage standards.…

— Arika Okrent

Every now and then I think about my own death, and I think about my own funeral. ... Every now and then…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“[Funeral sermon, 02/08/1880] How is it with this young man here? Well, I wish it were otherwise; I wish he had lived…

— John Taylor

As for the bracelet Mom wore to the funeral, what I did was I converted Dad’s last voice message into Morse code,…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Funerals often make us want sex-it's one in the eye for death.

— Thomas Harris

“Funerals are for the living, Jace, not for the dead.”

— Cassandra Clare

The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.

— John Clare

I wouldn't want my funeral to be a sad, sappy thing.

— Vinnie Paul

He was so poor that he couldnt afford a funeral thats why he is still alive.

— Vikrant Parsai

It's common sense to wear black when announcing your country's funeral!...

— Mariana Fulger

A tree has no funeral and neither do relationships

— Chris Time Steele

Every morning I walk by a funeral home, and that's my productivity hack for how to make sure your to-do list is…

— Anil Dash