Best Funeral Words
514 Funeral quotes by 421 unique authors
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Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.
— Sri Yukteswar Giri
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Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it's original and good for their health,…
— Thomas Bernhard
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Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the funeral be perfectly…
— Unknown Author
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I have heard it said that winter, too, will pass, that spring is a sign that summer is due at last. See, all we have…
— Maya Angelou
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I have passed the mountain peak and my soul is soaring in the firmament of Complete and unbounded freedom; I am in comfort, I am…
— Khalil Gibran
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Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us.
— Anna Quindlen
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We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Life is a sport...drink it up.
— Michael Jordan
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As I'm lying there at my funeral I would hope to hear somebody say, “Look, he's still moving!
— Peter Costello
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People dress up for funerals. Why not dress up to celebrate that you’re alive?
— Gay Talese
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Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
— Harvey Mackay
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Philadelphia fans would boo funerals, an Easter egg hunt, a parade of armless war vets and the Liberty Bell.
— Bo Belinsky
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I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day,…
— M.I.A.
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The wheel of Time wrote the first half of the poetry of mass destruction on the black board of the ashes of a funeral ground…
— Manmohan Acharya
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Low on his funeral couch he lies!
— Thomas Gray
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My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in…
— Anne Rice
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I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost…
— Gloria Steinem
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When many people are killed, they should be mourned and lamented. Those who are victorious in war should follow the rites of funerals.
— Laozi
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Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control.
— Jessica Mitford
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The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.
— John Clare
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I worry that friends will slowly become professional pallbearers, waiting for each death, of their lovers, friends and neighbors, and polishing their funeral speeches; perfecting…
— David Wojnarowicz
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It's my policy not to review funerals.
— A.M. Homes
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What I’m saying is I think life is staggering and we’re just used to it. We all are like spoiled children no longer impressed with…
— Donald Miller
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Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea…
— Alexander Cockburn
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