I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be jolly at my… — Lord Mountbatten Copy Share Image
You can spend your whole life trying to be popular, but at the end of the day, the size of the crowd… — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
Did you ever wish you could die, but be alive at your funeral. Just to see who would be there, just to… — MrFrankOcean Copy Share Image
I will teach you my townspeople how to perform a funeral for you have it over a troop of artists unless one… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines. — O. Henry Copy Share Image
[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral. — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
I've had some really big hits with 'Groundhog Day' and 'Michael,' 'Multiplicity,' 'Four Weddings and a Funeral.' — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
“What I'm saying is I think life is staggering and we're just used to it. We are all like spoiled children no… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Orthodox Christians have the habit of claiming all great men, all men who have held important positions, men of reputation, men of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Squawking pierced the funeral's hushed atmosphere as hundreds of black birds flew overhead in a rush of beating wings. They settled on… — Michelle Hodkin Copy Share Image
It's not what I'd want for at my funeral. When I die, I just want them to plant me somewhere warm. And… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You only get one shot at this life. Some days you'll fly and some days you'll fall. Live so when your toes… — Uncle Phil Copy Share Image
In the godforsaken, obscene quicksand of life, there is a deafening alleluia rising from the souls of those who weep, and of… — Ann Weems Copy Share Image
As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others… — Horace Copy Share Image
I am too sick to work and haven't money enough to last 2 months and pay income tax. I want to keep… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
“THE BARROW In this high field strewn with stones I walk by a green mound, Its edges sheared by the plough. Crumbs… — Anthony Thwaite Copy Share Image
“The reign of tears is over,” proclaimed evangelist Billy Sunday in Virginia, during a mock funeral for John Barelycorn, a fictional character… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“Death is a personal matter, arousing sorrow, despair, fervor, or dry-hearted philosophy. Funerals, on the other hand, are social functions. Imagine going… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“How can I—how can any of us—let you go? You are woven through us, from birth to death. You educated me, married… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
[I]n contrast to the common belief that they are the world's greatest cynics, the best journalists are the world's great idealists. They… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side,… — Mark Helprin 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
Welcome to Israel, where chanting “Death to Arabs” is democracy, running over children is equality, and firing on funerals is peace. — Remi Kanazi Copy Share Image
“Anyway, they took her body to McBurney's Funeral Home in Motley. They'll be planting her tomorrow.” — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
At Ken Lay's funeral service the minister compared him to Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior. The difference is Dr. King had a… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to… — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
the time to hesitate is through no time to wallowin the mire Try now we can only lose and our love become… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
The archiving industry, much like the funeral industry and the wedding industry, these industries can be very exploitative. — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
“To hear how much of a great human being you were — even if you really weren’t — open your ears at… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Eerily, the coronation was kind of a reverse of Tatianaʹs funeral. What was the old saying? The queen is dead. Long live… — Richelle Mead 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
Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For sure, the funeral industry seems intensely cynical to me and I don't think it is HELPING people mourn. — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of entertainment. ” — George Ade Copy Share Image
“Science advances one funeral at a time. Only when one generation passes away do new theories have a chance to root out… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“If it’s been more than 24 hours, you call the cops and I’ll buy the flowers. I’ll meet you at church, first… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The saddest face I ever saw on Martin Luther King was at the funeral of the four little girls slain in Birmingham,… — James A. Forbes Copy Share Image
“We were heading into the clumsy territory of my mother’s funeral, stretched-out silences, wrong smiles, the place where words didn’t work.” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image