As soon as people see my face on a movie screen, they knew two things: first, I'm not going to get the… — Lee Marvin Copy Share Image
I don't suppose I can wear the flamingo tie," he said as he pulled on black socks. "It's a bit festive, given… — John Green Copy Share Image
If I were to die today, I would be nervous about what people would say at my funeral. I would be happy… — Mike Yaconelli Copy Share Image
I will not insult you by trying to tell you that one day you will forget. I know as well as you… — Terence Rattigan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There's nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you're not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.'… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A tell-all book by David Axelrod, one of President Obama's former strategists, reveals that Obama chose Joe Biden as his VP because… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
And Tom brought him chicken soup until he wanted to kill him. The lore has not died out of the world, and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Funerals cost so much money, and are likely to be an additional source of stress in this recession - it's sad that… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A recent survey stated that the average person's greatest fear is having to give a speech in public. Somehow this ranked even… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I sigh and sit back up on the couch. “Hey, Mom.” I’m really surprised she’s speaking to me. It’s only been one… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
We should not expect the state to appear in the guise of an extravagant good fairy at every christening, a loquacious companion… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Maybe lurking in my unconscious was the idea that when someone's collected poems are published it means that the poet is dead.… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
“I wish to declare with all earnestness that I do not want any religious ceremonies performed for me after my death. I… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
“At first are moving tombs on the surface of the surface of the earth; then we become static tombs in the brims… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
When you attend a funeral, It is sad to think that sooner o' Later those you love will do the same for… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
I have experienced a murderer among my friends. Many, many years ago. At close range I have seen the impact of it.… — Karin Fossum Copy Share Image
A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Then I asked her if she wanted to to the funeral, and my God, the look on her face. You'd think I'd… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
I pointed out that the Atlanta Olympic bomber - as well as Timothy McVeigh and the people who protest against gay rights… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
I’m the god of funerals. I know every death custom in the world—how to die properly, how to prepare the body and… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age… — Ben Casnocha Copy Share Image
We were at another funeral party. I wasn’t sure who had died this time, but it was a suicide, and upsetting because… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“How many people delay the kindness, the expression of love, until the person is dead, beyond their reach, and then try to… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
I count too heavily on birthdays, though I know I shouldn't. Inevitably I begin to assess my life by them, figure out… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Men had taken greater blows: that was what made a man a man. For did they not say that a man is… — Chinua Achebe 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
“The more death, the more birth. People are entering, others are exiting. The cry of a baby, the mourning of others. When… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
My father? A hard drinking man from the 70's. We actually have no pictures of my dad where he is not holding… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The mourning of a loved one never ends with a funeral. It comes back every so often, like a stage performer eager… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
I could picture life—school and everything else—continuing on without me. But I could not picture my funeral. Not at all. Mostly because… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
At my funeral, if one said, 'Nick was a generous person,' trust me I won't be doing cartwheels in my coffin. Recognition… — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
I'll always remember when I bumped into Good Morning America's Robin Roberts on a flight to my mother's funeral in 1994, and… — Gayle King Copy Share Image
How can so much beauty hide such a bruised and steely heart, and why must I love him, why must I lean… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
