Funerals Quotes

I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.

If you don't go to other men funerals they won't go to yours.

I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.

Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.

I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music, have children to my music and play my music at their funerals.

Yeah, like, when I look back on my life, I just remember back what happened in '74, or something. It seems like only the real good stuff comes to mind. I don't think of all the tragedies and all the funerals. That just doesn't come to mind at all. I guess I'm really blessed that way.

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

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour.

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.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.

I've been at the funerals of a lot of people in my neighborhood. Sometimes when I sit back and relax, I think about that and just blank out.