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title: "3 Funeral Quotes By Valerie Harper"
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> [I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage, but that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valerie-harper/i-really-want-americans-and-all-of-us-to-be-less-afraid-of-death-and/)

[Valerie Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valerie-harper/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c9/valerie-harper-4175_afraid_i-really-want-americans-and-all-of-us-to_725404.png)

> [Keep your chin up, and don't go to the funeral - mine or yours or your loved one's - until the day…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valerie-harper/keep-your-chin-up-and-don-t-go-to-the-funeral-mine-or-yours-or-your/)

[Valerie Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valerie-harper/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f9c/valerie-harper-4175_day_keep-your-chin-up-and-don-t-go-to-the-fu_2259717.png)

> [Don’t go to the funeral until the day of the funeral - live this day,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valerie-harper/don-t-go-to-the-funeral-until-the-day-of-the-funeral-live-this-day/)

[Valerie Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valerie-harper/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/586/valerie-harper-4175_funeral_don-t-go-to-the-funeral-until-the-day-of_2480691.png)

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## More by Valerie Harper

> [Life does not owe me a shred.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valerie-harper/life-does-not-owe-me-a-shred/)

[Valerie Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valerie-harper/)

> [Cancer reminds me of a very bad but tenacious performer who, although no one wants to see, insists on doing an encore, having a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valerie-harper/cancer-reminds-me-of-a-very-bad-but-tenacious-performer-who-although/)

[Valerie Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valerie-harper/)

> [I really got the 'Rhoda' flavor from studying my stepmother, Angela, who's Italian, not Jewish. There's really so little difference between the speech patterns…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valerie-harper/i-really-got-the-rhoda-flavor-from-studying-my-stepmother-angela-who/)

[Valerie Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valerie-harper/)

> [We think it's food that matters the most, but exercise and food both matter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valerie-harper/we-think-it-s-food-that-matters-the-most-but-exercise-and-food-both/)

[Valerie Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valerie-harper/)

> [All of us are going to die. Every single one of us. So, while you're alive, be alive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valerie-harper/all-of-us-are-going-to-die-every-single-one-of-us-so-while-you-re/)

[Valerie Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valerie-harper/)

> [I'm painfully middle class.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valerie-harper/i-m-painfully-middle-class/)

[Valerie Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valerie-harper/)

> [I don't know a great deal about Alzheimer's - just what it does.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valerie-harper/i-don-t-know-a-great-deal-about-alzheimer-s-just-what-it-does/)

[Valerie Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valerie-harper/)

> [I have had acupuncture regularly, and I engage in visualization, which is actually an actor's tool, visualizing myself kicking out the cancer, making up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valerie-harper/i-have-had-acupuncture-regularly-and-i-engage-in-visualization-which/)

[Valerie Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valerie-harper/)

> [I first met Rhoda Morgenstern in the spring of 1970.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valerie-harper/i-first-met-rhoda-morgenstern-in-the-spring-of-1970/)

[Valerie Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valerie-harper/)

> [I've had very deep moments of sadness. What I do is really sob, really cry, do whatever it is, and then kind of release…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valerie-harper/i-ve-had-very-deep-moments-of-sadness-what-i-do-is-really-sob-really/)

[Valerie Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valerie-harper/)

> [Comedy is saving me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valerie-harper/comedy-is-saving-me/)

[Valerie Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valerie-harper/)

> [Life is amazing. Live it to the fullest. Stay as long as you can.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valerie-harper/life-is-amazing-live-it-to-the-fullest-stay-as-long-as-you-can/)

[Valerie Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valerie-harper/)

> [If I wake up in the night terrified, I try to find a way to not let the fear have me. Every moment you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valerie-harper/if-i-wake-up-in-the-night-terrified-i-try-to-find-a-way-to-not-let/)

[Valerie Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valerie-harper/)

> [Death is out there for all of us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valerie-harper/death-is-out-there-for-all-of-us/)

[Valerie Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valerie-harper/)

> [I'm happier because I had to face what all of us try not to face: that we're going to die. It's a fact.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valerie-harper/i-m-happier-because-i-had-to-face-what-all-of-us-try-not-to-face-that/)

[Valerie Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valerie-harper/)

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