Funeral Quote by Peter Hedges

I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the…

— Anonymous

Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.

— Aaron Eckhart

But when you're grieving, when you're going through something difficult, you lose your appetite. You don't want to eat. People are also always commenting…

— Lulu Wang

It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because…

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

Sometimes, when full and in fear that I will continue to eat unwanted food just because it's staring at me, I will place my…

— Rachel Nichols

A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be.

— Thomas Lynch

You know all my life I've hated funerals. The fuss and bother never brings anybody back. It just spoils remembering them as they really…

— Jules Furthman

“People don’t gather after a death to mourn, but rather to reaffirm why life matters and to remember to exult in the only one…

— Heather Lende

Most souls attend their funerals and have some feelings about them, but it's such an individual event. Some souls don't care what happens to…

— Echo Bodine

Although I love all the great foods of the world, my death row meal would have to be cooked for me by my mother…

— Joe Bastianich

A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late,…

— Anonymous

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

— Mark Twain