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Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has been and is not.
— George Eliot
The saddest face I ever saw on Martin Luther King was at the funeral of the four little girls slain in Birmingham, Alabama.
— James A. Forbes
When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Trust in good verse then:
They only shall aspire,
When pyramids, as men
Are lost i'the funeral fire. — Arthur Quiller-Couch
They only shall aspire,
When pyramids, as men
Are lost i'the funeral fire. — Arthur Quiller-Couch
Life is a sport ... drink it up.
— Michael Jordan
No money, no church service, no eulogy,no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit. p 354
— Abraham Verghese
Science advances funeral by funeral
— Max Planck
Why should i go to his funeral? He ain't comming to mine.
— Daniel Nielsen
If I fall and break my neck, will you say something nice at my funeral?"
"Like 'Kyler was usually more graceful? — J. Lynn
"Like 'Kyler was usually more graceful? — J. Lynn
Let's put the fun back in funeral!
— Kresley Cole
He lived forty-four years and no one cried at his funeral.
— John Grisham
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
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
With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.
— William Shakespeare
What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.
— Delmore Schwartz
Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.
— Alexander Pope
We gotta appreciate Grandpa while he's still with us, an not save our caring for his funeral day.
— V.C. Andrews
Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been.
— Louis Gustave Vapereau
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
Some of Mozart's Andantes emanate an ethereal desolation, a sort of dream funeral in another life.
— Emil Cioran
After all, whistling put everyone at ease. Unless it was a funeral dirge. But he didn't want to think about that." Montague.
— M.H. Snowy
I've always found the most tragic things funny. I was always the guy laughing at the funeral.
— Andrew Gurland
I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.
— Maria Edgeworth
A woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral.
— Barbara Holland
Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.
— Olin Miller
The tea tasted like a clear dark dripping from the past. My grandmother came back with it, in crisp black funeral silks,
— Ross Macdonald
We were heading into the clumsy territory of my mother's funeral, stretched-out silences, wrong smiles, the place where words didn't work.
— Donna Tartt
I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.
— Anna Deavere Smith
I want that at my funeral," said Pam. "I want to be carried out on the shoulders of six stalwart young men. Preferably in loincloths.
— Leslie Meier
I've just had some bad news. Tomorrow is the mother in law's funeral. And she's cancelled it.
— Les Dawson
It amazes me that the most Christian funerals are the most barbaric funeral rites of passage that are celebrated anywhere in the world.
— Steve Earle
Science advances one funeral at a time.
— Max Planck
If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.
— Katherine Mansfield
Never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.
— L.M. Montgomery
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.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I am aware that what
the body does for love
is sometimes not.
I celebrate reversals.
I watch a funeral
somewhere at sea. — Jerome Rothenberg
the body does for love
is sometimes not.
I celebrate reversals.
I watch a funeral
somewhere at sea. — Jerome Rothenberg
The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.
— Rabindranath Tagore
The sort of fellow whose funeral's orations are all on the theme of Well, that's a relief.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
I'm telling you, Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interrupt you at his own funeral.
— John Green
I didn't care about Suzao - in fact, I was planning to spit on his funeral pyre just to hear it sizzle - but
— Veronica Roth
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
— Ben Jonson
You cannot be responsible for some things that happen on earth. You may attempt to act, God alone will decide. Some things are mysteries!
— Israelmore Ayivor
I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case.
— John Knowles
Christ never preached any funeral sermons.
— Dwight L. Moody
I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah.
— Jesse Eisenberg
For sure, the funeral industry seems intensely cynical to me and I don't think it is HELPING people mourn.
— Meghan O'Rourke
The dead never go to their own funeral.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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.
— Martin Parr
Lord Randolph Churchill was the chief mourner at his own protracted funeral.
— Archibald Primrose
My first clue time travel could be possible was in the barber's chair the day before my girlfriend's funeral.
— Timothy C. Ward
I'm a big Arcade Fire fan. I love the way they make records - 'Funeral' being my favorite.
— Tom Odell
I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.
— Douglas William Jerrold
You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.
— Chuck Tanner
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.
— Sybil Thorndike
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.
— Ming-Dao Deng
It was not lively enough for a pleasure trip; but if we had only had a corpse it would have made a noble funeral excursion.
— Mark Twain
For if someone died at an old age, or of natural causes, a funeral was a time of celebration rather than mourning.
— Sheng-Shih Lin
My grandfather had a wonderful funeral ... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad.
— Woody Allen
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— John Williams
Give your Friends Roses while they are still alive; don't wait until their funeral.
-Robert L. Biehl (my dad) — Bobb Biehl
-Robert L. Biehl (my dad) — Bobb Biehl
Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions.
— Herman Melville
When words are most empty, tears are most apt.
— Max Lucado
Life is but a story told at one's funeral
— Charles Slamowitz
How unfortunate it is to be constrained by what people might say at our funeral or on our gravestone.
— Lawrence Fagg
As I'm lying there at my funeral I would hope to hear somebody say, Look, he's still moving!
— Peter Costello
What's even more messed up than funerals, is the way people treat you after the funeral. Like you're diseased or something.
— Denise Jaden
Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
— Charles Caleb Colton
Every morning I walk by a funeral home, and that's my productivity hack for how to make sure your to-do list is properly prioritized.
— Anil Dash
Holy fuck," Sully muttered, his eyes on Mike. "Funeral hook up. Didn't know you had that in you. Impressed.
— Kristen Ashley
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
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
— Mark Twain
Death was a big part of my life growing up. I went to lots of funerals.
— Madonna Ciccone
If you want to know whether or not you have had a successful life, think about what people would say about you at your own funeral.
— Lindsey Rietzsch
After Auschwitz, I no longer cry at funerals.
— Charlotte Delbo
Funeral by funeral, theory advances.
— Paul Samuelson
On the day of the funeral he had stood behind me in the rain and let the water wash over him, the drops falling from the brim of his hat like tears
— John Connolly
You're doing fucking awesome, Colt whispers in my ear and I can't help but smile at that. Only he would use the word 'fuck' at my mom's funeral.
— Nyrae Dawn
It makes no difference what you wear, really. I'll put you in a dark grey. I believe I have some left over from a funeral. says the dressmaker.
— Maryrose Wood
Earlier, I'd found Lark in the gym, telling her, "I'm giving Cyclops a bath."
Her response: "Your funeral. — Kresley Cole
Her response: "Your funeral. — Kresley Cole
I felt like a kid at Santa Claus's funeral.
— David Gerrold
Mum, at Sam's funeral, I didn't cry ... is that
is that normal?"
"Lauren, write in your journal and you'll feel better. — Amelia Mysko
is that normal?"
"Lauren, write in your journal and you'll feel better. — Amelia Mysko
You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.
— Marina Abramovic
I did not see your mother at the funeral,' she said, following the thought. 'She stopped coming to them after her own,' Paul answered simply.
— Frances Hardinge