Funeral Quotes

I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13 little children, victims not only of John D. Rockefeller, but of the government of the state of Colorado were buried.

It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.

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

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

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.

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.

When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

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

When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

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.

An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.

I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.

People are scared to make something that doesn't look like another film that made a lot of money. It means we get 'Four Weddings And A Funeral' made again and again.

If anyone at my funeral has a long face, I'll never speak to him again.

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

You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

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

Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the funeral be perfectly private, with as few persons attending, and as little show and expense as possible.

We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.

Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.

I checked myself out in that funeral parlour scene. I saw myself laughing, because there was a shot of Ed and I together and Mary was right in back of us. My head turned from the camera and I saw myself laughing, because Mary was absolutely brilliant in that thing.

I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.

Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it will be met possibly with a protest or a demonstration.

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.