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Anyway, they took her body to McBurney's Funeral Home in Motley. They'll be planting her tomorrow.
— Peter Hedges
If God hath made this world so fair,
Where sin and death abound,
How beautiful beyond compare
Will paradise be found! — James Montgomery
Where sin and death abound,
How beautiful beyond compare
Will paradise be found! — James Montgomery
Nothing good comes from a death without a funeral.
— Kate Morton
Losing Grandma, just when I'd found her again. A waterfall of flowers brightened her funeral, but they couldn't disguise the stench of death.
— Ellen Hopkins
Nobody really wants to be your friend when they discover that you work with dead people.
— Rebecca McNutt
A comedy ends with a wedding, and a tragedy ends with a funeral: you always have to juxtapose sex and death.
— Chuck Palahniuk
So die as though your funeral
Ushered you through the doors that led
Into a stately banquet hall
Where heroes banqueted. — Alan Seeger
Ushered you through the doors that led
Into a stately banquet hall
Where heroes banqueted. — Alan Seeger
We stand in black to watch this rite performed, the body in the box, the box in the hole, the dirt on the box.
— Johnny Rich
He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides
— Gustave Flaubert
Your coffin reached the monstrous hole. And a part of me went down into the muddy earth with you and lay down next to you and died with you.
— Rosamund Lupton
A black suit always goes well at a funeral.
— Allan Dare Pearce
I think you should live your life so that the maximum number of people will attend your funeral.
— Scott Adams
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?
— Daniele Vare
Black funeral dress. Black heels. Black headband in my hair. Death has a style all it's own. I'm glad I don't have to wear it very often.
— Courtney C. Stevens
How quickly, how neatly the chaos of a living person could be reduced to an insignificant box.
— Josh Lanyon
Funerals seem less about comforting the souls of these dearly departed than about
comforting the people they leave behind. — Rin Chupeco
comforting the people they leave behind. — Rin Chupeco
Visit me before I die. We can enjoy one another's company. A funeral is a rather one-sided affair.
— Ralph Webster
Every single living thing is food to at least one living thing.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be
counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites
are paid. — Ovid
counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites
are paid. — Ovid
Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.
— Aaron Eckhart
She would die faking her death. All she could think about was how much Marius would laugh at her funeral.
— Emma Clifton
Don't cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
It is sad to fill a grave with a person full of potential yet completely emptied of anymore possibility to try it once again.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
About Thatcher's death: Let's privatise her funeral. Put it out on competetive tender and accept the cheapest bid. That's what she would have wanted.
— Ken Loach
We always emerge from the death of a loved one like a phoenix arising from its funeral pyre.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.
— Marina Abramovic
Death was a big part of my life growing up. I went to lots of funerals.
— Madonna Ciccone
I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral
— Lord Mountbatten
Christ never preached any funeral sermons.
— Dwight L. Moody
I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case.
— John Knowles
Funerals aren't for the dead. They're for the living.
— Gavin Extence
He is but as the stubble of the field, and yet he has no beard.
— Marguerite Young
*Paying one's last respects* is about the payer, not the paid. (Who attends the funeral - and who doesn't - is the deceased's last worry.)
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.
— Albert Camus
Wouldst thou find my ashes? Look
In the pages of my book;
And as these thy hand doth turn,
Know here is my funeral urn. — Adelaide Crapsey
In the pages of my book;
And as these thy hand doth turn,
Know here is my funeral urn. — Adelaide Crapsey
My ghost is the only soul who ever comes to cry on my grave ... Only the skies cried sincerely on my funeral.
— Simona Panova
To hear how much of a great human being you were - even if you really weren't - open your ears at your funeral.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It was like a bomb had just gone off in the kitchen, and instead of cleaning up the rubble, people were stepping around it and eating mini-quiche.
— Morgan Matson
How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?
— Jodi Picoult
A funeral is no place for secrets.
— Mitch Albom
Life's too short for a funeral.
— Bill Smith
Directing a funeral isn't about death at all. Funerals are for the living, not the dead.
— Rebecca McNutt
Death is the funeral of all our sorrows.
— David Berg