Funeral Quotes · Page 26

If at my funeral they're talking about my boxing stories, I'd be disappointed because this is just a springboard for when I'm…

— Mark de Mori

Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high…

— E. O. Wilson

Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The other day, the way people [do] who are approaching their 80th birthday, I was thinking about all the last business -…

— Frederick Buechner

View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to…

— Viktor E. Frankl

I think the important thing to learn is that we can retain a sentimental loyalty to the cultural and literary traditions of,…

— Richard Dawkins

“His face looked almost as gray as his suit, and the pouches beneath his eyes looked like little bags for holding all…

— Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

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

— Maya Angelou

There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe…

— Albert Camus

“Funerals seem less about comforting the souls of these dearly departed than about comforting the people they leave behind.”

— Rin Chupeco

There wasn't a funeral per se. I buried [Gilda Radner] 3 miles from her house that she had bought just shortly before…

— Gene Wilder

I wanted to make a human monster. His name is Coffin Baby. The idea is based on a group of people from…

— Tobe Hooper

She pictured herself running from a hoard of ravenous zombies on a hot day eventually collapsing from heatstroke and getting devoured. Then…

— Brandon Mull

I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run…

— Albert Brooks

I find too there are few Friendships in the World Marriage-Proof; especially when the Person our Friend marries has not a Soul…

— Katherine Philips

It's right around this time that her Grandmother Hall dies. And Eleanor Roosevelt is responsible for making all the funeral arrangements. And…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

“We cannot be too young to die.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“To hear how much of a great human being you were — even if you really weren’t — open your ears at…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Always remember this: If you don't attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.

— H. L. Mencken

“At first are moving tombs on the surface of the surface of the earth; then we become static tombs in the brims…

— Israelmore Ayivor

If I fall and break my neck, will you say something nice at my funeral?" "Like 'Kyler was usually more graceful?

— J. Lynn

“Delay is not a help-mate. The cemetary is full of people who thought they could DO IT tomorrow. Do It Now!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking…

— Andrew Solomon

Lessee...he'd gone off after the funeral and gotten drunk. No, not drunk, another word, ended with "er." Drunker. that was it.

— Terry Pratchett