Funeral Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

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.

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.

Saying, 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying, ' I apologize.' Except at a funeral.

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.

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

Funeral by funeral, theory advances.

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.

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.

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

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

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.