“Another weird thing about funerals: Wear black but kill something as colorful as flowers to decorate.” — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Too many funerals, not enough graduations. Too many baby showers not enough weddings. — James Merrow Copy Share Image
Sometimes funerals can be good. It reunites you with your cousins you haven't seen in a while. — David Burtka 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
“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I have been told that I have been played at - my music's been played at funerals, deaths, births, weddings. Weddings, I… — Patty Griffin Copy Share Image
I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning. — Humphrey Bogart Copy Share Image
It amazes me that the most Christian funerals are the most barbaric funeral rites of passage that are celebrated anywhere in the… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
“Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
How many funerals do we have to attend until we realise how fortunate we are and how grateful we should be for… — Carniel Dunlop Copy Share Image
It's crazy because people expect you to be funny all the time and every day is not a funny day. I go… — Chris Tucker Copy Share Image
“People can act so nice, bringing you food and all, but in the end they are nothing but buzzards. Waiting to pick… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
“Sensei says funerals are not really for the dead. They are for those left behind. "The dead are long gone by the… — Sandy Fussell Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it was as well that she had been unconscious for four weeks. She had missed the aftermath, the SO-1 reports, the… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Growing up, there were a lot of funerals that I attended, and the adults at the funerals went out of their way… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
They say funerals are not for the dead but for the living. Those rites are what permit you to move on, so… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
Most souls attend their funerals and have some feelings about them, but it's such an individual event. Some souls don't care what… — Echo Bodine Copy Share Image
Weddings and funerals have so much in common (except that in Ireland funerals are more fun - better food, better drink): at… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
In my early teens, I acquired a kind of representative status: went on behalf of the family to wakes and funerals and… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
“Before I lost my father, I never understood the rituals surrounding funerals: the wake, the service itself, the reception afterward,the dinners prepared… — Wendy Webb Copy Share Image
“When someone you love dies, you are given the gift of "second chances". Their eulogy is a reminder that the living can… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“There are those, too, who are ethnically predisposed in favor of funerals, who recognize among the black drapes and dirges an emotionally… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
“ The Voyager We are all lonely voyagers sailing on life's ebb tide, To a far off place were all stripling warriors… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Death is a personal matter, arousing sorrow, despair, fervor, or dry-hearted philosophy. Funerals, on the other hand, are social functions. Imagine going… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Movie directors often shoot funerals in the rain. The mourners stand in their dark suits under large black umbrellas, the kind you… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“Samson caused the house to collapse, knowing his death would also result. Despite Samson’s deliberate suicide, Samson died faithful after having judged… — Michael Ben Zehabe Copy Share Image
