Funerals Quotes

140 quotes by 126 authors

Weddings and funerals are when you figure out who your real friends are. — Amy Dickinson
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
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
He would make a lovely corpse. — Charles Dickens
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. — John Donne
Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it. — Steve Earle
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few… — Garrison Keillor
I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal. — Hedy Lamarr
My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth
I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one. — Thomas Lynch
It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all… — Solomon Ortiz
I have prayed with the families and wept at the funerals of Hoosiers who did not shrink from 9-11 but grew into heroes whose names… — Mike Pence
Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well… — Terry Pratchett
I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who… — Emma Thompson
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. — Mark Twain
I pointed out that the Atlanta Olympic bomber - as well as Timothy McVeigh and the people who protest against gay rights at military funerals… — Juan Williams

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