I was raised Catholic. Not just a little bit Catholic, like my wife, Catherine. When she was young, many Catholics in France… — Frans de Waal 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
“A lot of nonsense is spoken at funerals, especially when the deceased had not been well liked in life. Many euphemisms are… — G.M. Malliet Copy Share Image
“The earthquakes in people's heads, half the city's population was cracked, a rabble of doom-merchants, psychos, ghouls. They could smell a funeral… — Rupert Thomson Copy Share Image
They say a man is like a funeral ram which must take whatever beating comes to it without opening its mouth; only… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I've been in so many funeral scenes from The Sopranos, and I think I've even been in one on Sons of Anarchy.… — Drea de Matteo Copy Share Image
“What about your funeral, eh?” She asks. “You mean the one that is never going to happen ever because I am going… — Sara Wolf 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
When my dad passed away, I was under a lot of stress with planning a funeral, trying to pick out just the… — Natalya Neidhart Copy Share Image
Oh, hey, Claire,” she said, and blinked. “Where are you going?” “Funeral,” Shane said. On-screen, a zombie shrieked and died gruesomely. “Yeah?… — Rachel Caine 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
I ask a wreathwhich will not crush my head. And there is no hurry about it; I shall have, doubtless, a boom… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
“The only thing I can recall is that it rained all day and all night, and that when I asked my father… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music,… — Wynonna Judd Copy Share Image
“suddenly remembered a beautiful verse by the great Lebanese philosopher Kahlil Gibran: “Mayhap a funeral among men is a wedding feast among… — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
I don't share photos of people grieving leaving a funeral or outside of a hospital when a loved one is sick... You… — Perez Hilton Copy Share Image
I remember in 'Pride and Prejudice' I had to do a scene where I broke down. And before we filmed I spent… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the… — Edward Eggleston 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
Yeah, like, when I look back on my life, I just remember back what happened in '74, or something. It seems like… — Gregg Allman Copy Share Image
I want a state funeral with bells ringing across the land! Then I'd love the congregation to do the hokey cokey and… — Toyah Willcox Copy Share Image
The government are considering spending £3million on a state funeral for Margaret Thatcher when she dies. For £3million they could buy everyone… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
“I hadn't understood funeral pyres before, but now I do. It's ghastly to burn someone you love but watching the smoke going… — Rosamund Lupton Copy Share Image
What we do every St. Patty's day, which is wear green and drink a lot of Guinness. And maybe cry a little… — Saoirse Ronan Copy Share Image
At my aunt's funeral, I promised myself that I wouldn't be bound by the belief that I'm supposed to stay in anything… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
I think the saddest moments in life have humor in them. I have a memory of coming home from a funeral with… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
More people have a fear of speaking than a fear of death. So at a funeral, most people would want to be… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except weddings, funerals or Ascot.… — Peter York Copy Share Image
I think weddings are sadder than funerals, because they remind you of your own wedding. You can't be reminded of your own… — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
“What the hell are you doing here? You weren't on the guest list. Hell, you people aren't on anybody's guest list. If… — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
“Fernanda was scandalized that she did not understand the relationship of Catholicism with life but only its relationship with death, as if… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Many old music hall fans were present at the funeral today of Fred 'Chuckles' Jenkins, Britain's oldest and unfunniest comedian. In tribute,… — Ronnie Barker Copy Share Image
My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Thousands of people are being buried and no one attends the funerals,' said one of the soldiers. 'In peacetime it's the other… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
When you're at your own parents' funeral, when you're at somebody that you love's funeral, you realize how precious life is. And… — Andrew Dice Clay Copy Share Image
“happy ending. Rest in peace. I jerk back. The beginning of our own happy ending? I don’t remember reading that before, but… — Leah Mercer Copy Share Image
Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I met Arcade Fire on their first record, 'Funeral.' I loved that record, and it was a record I was listening to… — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
