Funeral Quotes

No matter how great a man is, the size of his funeral usually depends on the weather.

God is coming to intersect us in our funeral processions.

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.

More people have a fear of speaking than a fear of death. So at a funeral, most people would want to be the person in the coffin rather than the person delivering the eulogy!

Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.' That doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday.

Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.

I am going to seek a grand perhaps.

Friends: not one. Just a few acquaintances who imagine they feel something for me and who might be sorry if a train ran over me and the funeral was on a rainy day.

Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral. [Lat., Ultima semper Expectanda dies homini est, dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo et suprema funera debet.]

The Madiba song may have ended, but its melody lingers on.

We spend our years with sighing; it is a valleyof tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows.

There will be no funeral! Before I get too old and ill, I'll go to South America and live among the Pemon people and meditate. When the time is right, they can throw my body into the volcano.

Picasso was a delightful, kindly, friendly, simple little man. When I met him he was extremely excited and overjoyed that his mother-in-law had just died, and he was looking forward to the funeral.

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

People ask me what makes a good funeral, and I tell them the most important thing is your man in the casket. If you have a man of substance in there, you have the makings of a first-class funeral.

Christ never preached any funeral sermons.

People get way too much credit at funerals.

The stars are not wanted now, put out every one Pack up the moon & dismantle the sun.

I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.

Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control.

Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has been and is not.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.

Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because he has had the management of it.

Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

When words are most empty, tears are most apt.

The passing of the years awakens in our hearts the cry for permanence.

With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.

Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.

Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things.

No American is prepared to attend his own funeral without the services of highly skilled cosmeticians. Part of the American dream, after all, is to live long and die young.

Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.

In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation’s funeral at our expense.

I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.

I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season was over and he had time for a nice funeral.

It's my policy not to review funerals.

Boros is not with the team today because he's attending his daughter's funeral. Oh, wait, it's her wedding.

Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.

Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love. News from the humming city comes to it It sound of funeral or of marriage bells.

Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.

These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.

Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.

So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted.

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

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.