I guess I do prefer a ball cap. I have performed without a cap, mostly at funerals and weddings. — Rodney Atkins Copy Share Image
Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
“It was a haunting tune, unresigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black… — Kristen Cashore Copy Share Image
The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
It’s so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control. — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
I went to a funeral recently, and they handed out Kleenex before the funeral. Which I thought was cocky. — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Inarticulate wretches have been behind most of the major advances in civilization. If Vincent Van Gogh had been able to get on… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
I never go to weddings. Waste of time. Person can get married a dozen times. Lots of folks do. Family like ours,… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
The funeral was over, at last I could cry. Except that I couldn't. My tears, kept in too long, had fossilized. They… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
You are thirty minutes late." "Yes." "Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?" "No." "Why not, pray… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Except for my daughters, I have not grieved for any death as I have grieved for his . His was a great… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral. — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
The wind outside nested in each tree, prowled the sidewalks in invisible treads like unseen cats. Tom Skelton shivered. Anyone could see… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I worry that friends will slowly become professional pallbearers, waiting for each death, of their lovers, friends and neighbors, and polishing their… — David Wojnarowicz Copy Share Image
I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy,… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
“*Paying one’s last respects* is about the payer, not the paid. (Who attends the funeral — and who doesn’t — is the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Two days after my dad's funeral, my mom went on a mission. I never understood it until then--that sometimes a spy doesn't… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
