Your coffin reached the monstrous hole. And a part of me went down into the muddy earth with you and lay down… — Rosamund Lupton Copy Share Image
I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
I've always found the most tragic things funny. I was always the guy laughing at the funeral. — Andrew Gurland Copy Share Image
My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made… — Shirley Manson Copy Share Image
Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true — Horace Copy Share Image
“Black funeral dress. Black heels. Black headband in my hair. Death has a style all it's own. I'm glad I don't have… — Courtney C. Stevens Copy Share Image
“Showing his usual preoccupation with himself, he left detailed instructions about his funeral but didn’t bother to address the succession.” — Lars Brownworth Copy Share Image
I've been at the funerals of a lot of people in my neighborhood. Sometimes when I sit back and relax, I think… — Carmelo Anthony Copy Share Image
“I think she might at least have waited till the funeral was over,' said Amanda in a scandalized voice. 'It's her own… — Saki Copy Share Image
October is nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
My first company was MicroSolutions. I worked 20 hours a day. I didn't take a vacation for 7 years. I didn't even… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
“I remembered back to leo's burial and holding your hand. I was eleven and you were six, your hand soft and small… — Rosamund Lupton 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 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
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 Copy Share Image
Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“Here's the other thing I think about. It makes little sense to try to control what happens to your remains when you… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things. So the follower of the Way stays away from it.… — Ursula K. Le Guin 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
Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'd say 3/4 of advertising works on pure Pavlov. Think how association, pure association, works. Take Coca-Cola company (we're the biggest share-holder).… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“Be aware of this truth that the people on this earth could be joyous, if only they would live rationally and if… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
She folded her arms and then shouted, "Right you thieving scunners! How dare you steal Miss Treason's funeral meats!" "Oh, waily, waily,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
There are songs about abortions, about slashing your arms with razors, about imagining your own funeral in New Orleans, about rock stars… — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury? — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If 180 million people want to be undead, that’s their funeral, but I happen to like being alive. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why should I be sad? Everyone has to die. If you have a body, it's too late to cry. It's only funerals… — Rachel Klein Copy Share Image
“I'm telling you, Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interrupt you at his own funeral.” — John Green Copy Share Image
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death. — Baron de Montesquieu 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
My legacy to me is-when I drop dead and they're at my funeral - I want my three kids to get up… — Dana White Copy Share Image
Boros is not with the team today because he's attending his daughter's funeral. Oh, wait, it's her wedding. — Jerry Coleman Copy Share Image
My biggest blast-off hit was 'You Raise Me Up.' If you ever have a wedding or a funeral, it's a good pick. — Josh Groban Copy Share Image
I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“Give me a funeral over a wedding any day,.' said Uncle Montague with a sigh. 'The conversation is almost always superior.” — Chris Priestley Copy Share Image
The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral. — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
Vanessa: [with Lisa] A friend of ours is being beaten by her husband and we want to know what we should do.… — Madea Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image