“The Romans feared their dead. In fact, Roman funeral customs derived from a need to propitiate the sensibilities of the departed. The… — Catharine Arnold Copy Share Image
Saying, 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying, ' I apologize.' Except at a funeral. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Ye country comets, that portend No war, nor prince's funeral, Shining unto no higher end Than to presage the grasses fall. . . . — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
Films, like memories, seem to re-shoot themselves over the years, reflecting our latest needs and obsessions. In many cases they can change… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Someone trying to be funny probably isn't as funny as someone who doesn't want to be funny but is and can't help… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
We're living in world, stars and dust Between heaven 'n all that surrounds us We're travellers here, spirits passing through And the… — Tina Turner Copy Share Image
My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they'll leave in people's hearts. They realize… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures, love… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I look upon every good man, as a good book, lent by its owner for another to read, and transcribe the excellent… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
The point is that no matter what you choose to do with your body when you die, it won't, ultimately, be very… — Mary Roach 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
“All things that we ordained festival, Turn from their office to black funeral; Our instruments to melancholy bells, Our wedding cheer to… — William Shakespeare 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
They say a man is like a funeral ram which must take whatever beating comes to it without opening its mouth; only… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Death would be an extremely bad thing like most of us paint it, if being dead were painful.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer. — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
