Funeral Quotes

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 by dint of a pair of pens of nuclear bombs.

I got so many emails and text messages, my phone blew up because it couldn't handle everybody. It's like almost being at your own funeral because of the way the headline read.

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

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

When words are most empty, tears are most apt.

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

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.

Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.

Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy.

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

A piano store looks like a funeral parlor for music.

The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats.

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

It is these black clothes," said Strange. "I am like a leftover piece of funeral, condemned to walk about the Town, frightening people into thinking of their own mortality.

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

To die or not to die ... we really don't have a choice. We can therefore only take care of our life-body, until the fullness of time and being ends our existence on earth.

And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.

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.

With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.

I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.

Life's too short for a funeral.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.

What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps.

If I fall and break my neck, will you say something nice at my funeral?" "Like 'Kyler was usually more graceful?

The kings of terrors, the last enemy, will never be able to breach the pearly gates and disturb the bliss of heaven! No more deathbed vigils or funerals. The hearse will have made its last journey.

Obviously if you are an accountant, a criminal lawyer, a president, or a senator, or if you work in a funeral parlor, you have to wear a tie, but more and more people are wearing very casual clothes.

never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.

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, it's out of your control.

You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.

People are usually pretty hungry after a funeral. I guess it's because we all realize that time is running out and we better eat all we can. Please don't mention that to my mother.

The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?

Weddings and funerals are when you figure out who your real friends are.

...an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.

When Malcolm X was assassinated I was working at the Apollo. They brought his body to the Unity Funeral Home, which was around the corner.

Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn.

The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail.

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 late for the man who is dead.

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An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral.

Funerals prove that someone is really gone.

I went to a funeral recently, and they handed out Kleenex before the funeral. Which I thought was cocky.

I wanted to be at my sister's funeral, but my family has always had a complicated dynamic.

One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke.

Eerily, the coronation was kind of a reverse of Tatianaʹs funeral. What was the old saying? The queen is dead. Long live the queen

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.

I guess I do prefer a ball cap. I have performed without a cap, mostly at funerals and weddings.

When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.

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?