I think you should live your life so that the maximum number of people will attend your funeral. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funeral.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
“We the living are to blame for the painfulness of being dead.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Death was a big part of my life growing up. I went to lots of funerals. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted. — Alan Seeger Copy Share Image
“The face of the dead man was concealed, of course, our customs not being those of the south, where corpses are carried… — Jan Neruda Copy Share Image
“Oh, Caddy," said Saffron miserably. "I know. It's awful. But I'm going. We all should." "It will be so sad." "You have… — Hilary McKay Copy Share Image
A friend of mine said something powerful at his grandfather's funeral. He said that the greatest lesson from his grandfather's life was… — Marvin Sapp Copy Share Image
Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I have met people that said when their friend was dying, they made them promise that their funeral would be a party… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
I grew up in the suburbs of a small town on the south coast where the only opportunity I ever got to… — Tom Odell Copy Share Image
I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to… — Robert Tappan Morris Copy Share Image
Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
You broke me bodily. The heart ain't the half of it, And I'll never learn to laugh at it In my good… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Sometimes funerals and weddings bring out the worst rather than the best in people. — Jeanne Phillips Copy Share Image
Obviously if you are an accountant, a criminal lawyer, a president, or a senator, or if you work in a funeral parlor,… — Jean Pigozzi Copy Share Image
You have your wonderful memories," people said later, as if memories were solace. Memories are not. Memories are by definition of times… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
If I should go before the rest of you Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone, Nor when I'm gone speak… — Joyce Grenfell Copy Share Image
certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability,… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Sometimes the truth don't rhyme, sometime the lies get millions of views, funerals for little girls is that appealing to you? — Chance the Rapper Copy Share Image
