I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
“a funeral reminds you to be alive, doesn’t it? It slaps you across the face and points out that there’s still warm… — Lydia Kang Copy Share Image
The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
Michael O'Sullivan was my great friend. But I don't ever remember telling him that. The words that are spoken at a funeral… — Ian Bannen Copy Share Image
We experienced a miscarriage at 13 weeks and then a few years later we lost our son Willem at 30 weeks. I… — Ben Fogle Copy Share Image
We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: "Too bad we can't get together more often". — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
“I blink at the skyline visible through the window, knowing the only thing waiting out there for me is a funeral home.” — Amy Matayo Copy Share Image
RIP to all my exs, the funeral will be held at Never Again Baptist Church located across from The Lies You've Told… — Kiana JWilson Copy Share Image
On the left is the realist tradition of the 19th century, with its impulse to social description, radical criticism and meditation on… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
“Stories are told at festive, joyful gatherings, but the ones narrated at funerals are special because they reaffirm existence, of the listeners… — Janice Pariat Copy Share Image
Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they'll leave in people's hearts. They realize… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Who knows when the end is reached? Death may be the beginning of life. How do I know that love of life… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes; Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching Earth; Lie close around her; leave no room… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“It was very sad under the trees. Although spring was well advanced, in the deep shade there was nothing but death-rotten leaves,… — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
I fall asleep in the full and certain hope That my slumber shall not be broken; And that, though I be all-forgetting,… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke. Don't get attached to anything. This attachment… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The Romans feared their dead. In fact, Roman funeral customs derived from a need to propitiate the sensibilities of the departed. The… — Catharine Arnold Copy Share Image
“Is — is any of this real?" she asked. "Are you real?" He lifted a hand to her cheek, his fingers brushing… — Kelly Creagh Copy Share Image
“I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, And Mourners to and fro Kept treading – treading – till it seemed That Sense… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Do you really want to know why you lost?” I asked. “Do you really have an answer?” he countered. “You need to… — Maria V. Snyder 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
“Love is The funeral pyre Where I have laid my living body. All the false notions of myself That once caused fear,… — Hafiz Copy Share Image
“Royal summoned mourners. They came from the village, from the neighboring hills and, wailing like dogs at midnight, laid siege to the… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals when their cheery effect is needed. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the… — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
“There was a time when one didn't attend a wedding, unless they were invited. In the near future, attending funerals will adopt… — Charmaine J Forde Copy Share Image
Presidential hopeful Jeb Bush has released all of his emails. I'd like to release all of my emails. I've got nothing but… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
You wish death upon someone you know if they were to die you would he he first one at the funeral. — Kevin McCarty Copy Share Image
Everyone has to go to a funeral at some time and you need to be dark and sombre, and in a black… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
“Nothing offers better public relations fodder than something you can rescue and love intensively for a month and then be filmed burying… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If you want a business that's guaranteed to always have customers, enter the funeral business. — KM II Copy Share Image
“On the day of his mother’s funeral, to the boy I loved more than I had ever loved anything or anyone, I… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I've had to write a column an hour after I've come back from a funeral. A deadline is a deadline, I mean,… — Laurie Notaro 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
Philadelphia fans would boo funerals, an Easter egg hunt, a parade of armless war vets and the Liberty Bell. — Bo Belinsky Copy Share Image
“No matter how rich you become, how famous or how powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty… — Michael Prichard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Don't go to people's funeral to show how much you cared about them. Instead show how much you care about them now...… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
