I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided — Robert Tappan Morris Copy Share Image
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Death would be an extremely bad thing like most of us paint it, if being dead were painful.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Away with funeral music-set The pipe to powerful lips- The cup of life's for him that drinks And not for him that… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
A comedy ends with a wedding, and a tragedy ends with a funeral: you always have to juxtapose sex and death. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I know I'd rather have my mate cry on my shoulder than go to his funeral next week. So please, let's get… — Paddy Pimblett Copy Share Image
I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played,… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral. [Lat., Ultima semper Expectanda… — Ovid Copy Share Image
“Hey, listen,' I say. " Fascinating as this is, we've got to go now. I have to collect the invites for my… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
'I shall have heaven and earth for my coffin and its shell; the sun and moon for my two round symbols of… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
I wrote "Miner's Prayer" after [grandfather] died. I'd gone back to his funeral, and he died in 1979. And I came back… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
There are so many cruel decisions parents have to make when their child dies. The funeral director requested a sheet for the… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's funeral because they all know I'm… — Sam Simon Copy Share Image
“The end When I die bang on cans Romp around in leaps and bounds Let whips crack in the air Call in… — Mário de Sá-Carneiro Copy Share Image
“when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I built a cannon out of ice, and wrapped myself in the funeral carpet which my husbands and wives had woven for… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I was one of those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it...We might expect that we will be prostrate,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
But what I really long to know you do not tell either: what you feel, although I've given you hints by the… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
I think if you listen to our records, they come at different points in your life. When people say to me that… — Torquil Campbell Copy Share Image
Ranger picked up and there was a moment of silence as if he was sensing me at the other end, taking my… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I just wanna die to see which of my friends care enough to come to my funeral. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My life will end someday, but it will end at my convenience.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I've had this black suit on. Roaming around like I'm ready for a funeral. — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image