Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been. — Louis Gustave Vapereau Copy Share Image
An elephant funeral makes me weep every time, and so does an ad with a kid leaving home for college. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“Funerals and weddings often take place in the same location. Some would also argue that they sometimes happen at the same time… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
When someone dies then they go to their funeral. Stands there... says nothing, because they are gone. — Anthony Barger Copy Share Image
A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Friends: not one. Just a few acquaintances who imagine they feel something for me and who might be sorry if a train… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“true. Look, why don’t you go see if the story’s in your paper, then call me back. The funeral’s gonna be up… — Lee Hanson Copy Share Image
No American is prepared to attend his own funeral without the services of highly skilled cosmeticians. Part of the American dream, after… — Edgar Friedenberg Copy Share Image
People ask me what makes a good funeral, and I tell them the most important thing is your man in the casket.… — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
It's always a great testament to your work and professionalism when you get the personal call from somebody's parents saying, 'Hey, I… — Phaedra Parks Copy Share Image
I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A psychiatrist once told me early in treatment, "Stop trying to make me like you," and what a sobering and welcome smack… — John Waters Copy Share Image
The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward,… — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out ofthe window,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Standing Here My entire world far beneath my feet, I should be filled with pride. Instead, I feel overwhelmed by a sense… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“I am so sorry to hear of Asher 's passing. I will miss his scientific insight and advice, but even more his… — Charles Henry Bennett Copy Share Image
When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing. And so, laughing and crying,… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Well, they took the neck bones down from the Royal Oaks tree. Rest of the bones they separated from the chains on… — Sarah E Wright Copy Share Image
“It was the funeral of a woman who had henpecked her husband, driven her kids half nuts, scrapped with the neighbors at… — Various Copy Share Image
Every funeral may justly be considered as a summons to prepare for that state into which it shows us that we must… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Everybody goes to the funeral, but everybody laughs when it's funny. While entertainment is happening, that's just what it is, entertainment -… — Lloyd Banks Copy Share Image
“When a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“No matter how rich you become, how famous or how powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty… — Michael Prichard Copy Share Image
Philadelphia fans would boo funerals, an Easter egg hunt, a parade of armless war vets and the Liberty Bell. — Bo Belinsky Copy Share Image
My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Don't go to people's funeral to show how much you cared about them. Instead show how much you care about them now...… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
“No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will sill pretty much… — Michael Prichard Copy Share Image
Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in. — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
We both laugh. And it feels good. A release. Like laughing at a funeral. Maybe inappropriate, but definitely needed. — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“You need to keep hurting until you realise you never needed to hurt in the first place.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“I could hear the exasperation in her voice, so beautiful and familiar, but sad, too, like hearing church bells right before your… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I die, nobody cry at my funeral, in fact let's all have a party; I've lived the life of ten men.… — Robbin Crosby Copy Share Image
“Some people don’t attend funeral not because they don’t want to but they are not emotionally strong to see anybody GO.” — Neeraj Bhanot Copy Share Image
I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
