Funeral Quotes · Page 6

I've just had some bad news. Tomorrow is the mother in law's funeral. And she's cancelled it.

— Les Dawson

I wanted to be at my sister's funeral, but my family has always had a complicated dynamic.

— Nick Carter

The funeral is a quiet one, despite the number of mourners present. There are no sobs or flailing handkerchiefs. There is a…

— Erin Morgenstern

The funeral business is so manipulative emotionally. I would want to be thrown into the sea or burned - something that's not…

— Bjork

“In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of entertainment. ”

— George Ade

Oh, hey, Claire,” she said, and blinked. “Where are you going?” “Funeral,” Shane said. On-screen, a zombie shrieked and died gruesomely. “Yeah?…

— Rachel Caine

Science advances one funeral at a time.

— Max Planck

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

— Irvin S. Cobb

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

— Charles Lamb

I want a military funeral when I die—the bugler, the flag on the casket, the ceremonial firing squad, the hallowed ground.... It…

— Kurt Vonnegut

My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the fees rise in proportion;…

— Johann Sebastian Bach

The human brain cannot release enough neurotransmitters to feel emotion a thousand times as strong as the grief of one funeral. A…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

To expiate the pain of losing her firstborn son in the Iraq war, Cindy Sheehan decided to cheer herself up by engaging…

— Ann Coulter

Death is the funeral of all our sorrows.

— David Berg

Picasso was a delightful, kindly, friendly, simple little man. When I met him he was extremely excited and overjoyed that his mother-in-law…

— Edith Sitwell

The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except weddings, funerals or Ascot.…

— Peter York

Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

— Rumi

Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There are songs about abortions, about slashing your arms with razors, about imagining your own funeral in New Orleans, about rock stars…

— Courtney Love

I came home [after funerals] and I thought if I go back to California, where I had a small house, I don't…

— Gene Wilder

I have asked to have no funeral, and no memorial service. I hate other people's and would certainly not appreciate my own.

— Charles Saatchi

Whenever I can’t sleep, I like to lie in the darkness and pretend I’ve been assassinated. I’ve found this is the best…

— Chuck Klosterman

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

— Vinnie Paul