Funeral Quotes
514 Funeral quotes by 421 unique authors
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One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke. Don't get attached to anything. This attachment takes you away…
— Rajneesh
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I remember when my father passed away, we drove the funeral procession past the bank so he could say one last goodbye. That's how much…
— Alexi Giannoulias
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The passing of the years awakens in our hearts the cry for permanence.
— F B Meyer
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When words are most empty, tears are most apt.
— Max Lucado
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He was a cowboy, mister, and he loved the land. He loved it so much he made a woman out of dirt and married her.…
— Jack Handey
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I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral
— Lord Mountbatten
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I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided
— Robert Tappan Morris
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View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't?…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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I foresee a great funeral contest over me.
— Alexander the Great
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Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral…
— Edward Dahlberg
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Why should i go to his funeral? He ain't comming to mine.
— Unknown Author
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One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke.
— Rajneesh
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With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.
— William Shakespeare
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Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.
— Aaron Eckhart
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Michael O'Sullivan was my great friend. But I don't ever remember telling him that. The words that are spoken at a funeral are spoken too…
— Unknown Author
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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered…
— Plutarch
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I think the important thing to learn is that we can retain a sentimental loyalty to the cultural and literary traditions of, say, Judaism, Anglicanism…
— Richard Dawkins
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The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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October is nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be numbered…
— Plutarch
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If you don't go to other men's funerals, they won't go to yours.
— Clarence Day
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The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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An evangelizer must never look like someone who has just come back from a funeral.
— Pope Francis
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Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
— Rosalind Russell
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Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life.
— Roger Rosenblatt
Who Wrote These Funeral Quotes
421 authors contributed a total of 514 Funeral Quotes, led by these top contributors: