Funeral Quotes

A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't even be there.

My biggest blast-off hit was "You Raise Me Up." If you ever have a wedding or a funeral, it's a good pick.

At my age, I regard each funeral I attend as a personal triumph, because I was not the guest of honor.

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 in peace.

When many people are killed, they should be mourned and lamented. Those who are victorious in war should follow the rites of funerals.

Conduct your triumph as a funeral.

If you're dressed for my funeral, it's too casual. If it's just street clothes, then you must be scaring the tourists.

How unfortunate it is to be constrained by what people might say at our funeral or on our gravestone.

Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been.

It’s so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.

I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.

I was terrified of funerals.

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

I like a decent funeral, and God knows in my family we've seen enough of them. Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.

Funerals cost so much money, and are likely to be an additional source of stress in this recession - it's sad that we don't have a more humane, less commercialized way to approach burial.

For sure, the funeral industry seems intensely cynical to me and I don't think it is HELPING people mourn.

I hope you die.... P.S. If you do die, I'm going to go to the funeral and finger your corpse.

A funeral is for those left behind. Sometimes, one wonders if the weeping is more out of fear for ourselves than it is sympathy for the deceased.

If I'm walking down the street and someone stops me and says, "Oh! A song that you wrote meant a lot to me, and I listened to it after I went to my sister's funeral," that's when it hits me.

You don’t want to ask after the health of anyone, if you’re a funeral director. They think maybe you’re scouting for business.

When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral.

Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals when their cheery effect is needed.

I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know.

As I'm lying there at my funeral I would hope to hear somebody say, “Look, he's still moving!

Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.

It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their undoubted flair for funeral orations.

Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are paid.

Oh, hey, Claire,” she said, and blinked. “Where are you going?” “Funeral,” Shane said. On-screen, a zombie shrieked and died gruesomely. “Yeah? Cool! Whose?” “Hers.” Shane said.

The only use she has for the word fun is to make the word funeral.

There was just no good way for a dead son to greet his mother almost two weeks after his funeral.

Away with funeral music-set The pipe to powerful lips- The cup of life's for him that drinks And not for him that sips.

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 legend.

Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life.

Maybe lurking in my unconscious was the idea that when someone's collected poems are published it means that the poet is dead. I found myself looking at my work as if I were at my own funeral.

Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there.

I think you should live your life so that the maximum number of people will attend your funeral.

Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.

I want Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D played at my funeral. If it isn't I shall jolly well want to know why.

That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. "Save them for my funeral," I'd said.

Stop stealing the funeral meats right now, you wee scuggers!" She shouted. The Feegles stopped and stared at her. Then Rob Anybody said: "Socks wi'oot feets?

Lessee...he'd gone off after the funeral and gotten drunk. No, not drunk, another word, ended with "er." Drunker. that was it.

Low on his funeral couch he lies!

When you're at a funeral and you're crying, you're crying for yourself

Thousands of people are being buried and no one attends the funerals,' said one of the soldiers. 'In peacetime it's the other way round: one coffin and a hundred people carrying flowers.

Every victory accomplished with weapons is a funeral that should be mourned.

I will teach you my townspeople how to perform a funeral for you have it over a troop of artists unless one should scour the world you have the ground sense necessary.

I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Would people be excited about your departure from the earth or they would wish you should come back again and again if possible?

Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funeral.

An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.