Funeral Quotes

514 Funeral quotes by 421 unique authors

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
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
The passing of the years awakens in our hearts the cry for permanence. — F B Meyer
When words are most empty, tears are most apt. — Max Lucado
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
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
I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided — Robert Tappan Morris
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
I foresee a great funeral contest over me. — Alexander the Great
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
Why should i go to his funeral? He ain't comming to mine. — Unknown Author
One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke. — Rajneesh
With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage. — William Shakespeare
Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived. — Aaron Eckhart
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
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
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
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
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
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
If you don't go to other men's funerals, they won't go to yours. — Clarence Day
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
An evangelizer must never look like someone who has just come back from a funeral. — Pope Francis
Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral. — Rosalind Russell
Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life. — Roger Rosenblatt

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