Best Funeral Qoutes

514 Funeral quotes by 421 unique authors

Funerals are all abstract ceremony. — Chuck Palahniuk
The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is a strain, so… — Peggy Noonan
Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the final say. — Karl Shapiro
Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because he has had… — William Cornelius Van Horne
About Thatcher's death: Let's privatise her funeral. Put it out on competetive tender and accept the cheapest bid. That's what she would have wanted. — Ken Loach
Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars… — Erasmus Darwin
Science advances funeral by funeral — Max Planck
Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses. — St. Jerome
Weddings and funerals are when you figure out who your real friends are. — Amy Dickinson
My legacy to me is-when I drop dead and they're at my funeral - I want my three kids to get up and say, 'He's… — Dana White
President Bush is often out there talking about the importance of staying the course, and about the sacrifice, but he has not attended a funeral… — Dana Milbank
Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset? — Daniele Vare
I want a military funeral when I die—the bugler, the flag on the casket, the ceremonial firing squad, the hallowed ground.... It will be a… — Kurt Vonnegut
People are usually pretty hungry after a funeral. I guess it's because we all realize that time is running out and we better eat all… — Peter Hedges
At my dad's funeral I didn't cry when my dad died. I did it years later when I forgave him, which I've totally forgiven him… — Billy Bob Thornton
I didn't cry at my father's funeral, and I felt guilty about that. Of course, he got sick not too long after he and I… — Billy Bob Thornton
Death was a big part of my life growing up. I went to lots of funerals. — Madonna Ciccone
I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be… — Neil Gaiman
The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead. — Samuel Goldwyn
Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends. — Mason Cooley
Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals. — Clarence Darrow
I've just had some bad news. Tomorrow is the mother in law's funeral. And she's cancelled it. — Les Dawson
Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it. — Steve Earle
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice… — George Eliot
I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar… — Jesse Eisenberg

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