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Why should I be sad? Everyone has to die. If you have a body, it's too late to cry. It's only funerals I can't stand. — Rachel Klein

Funerals aren't scheduled. — Benjamin J. Carey

And funerals are pretty compared to deaths. — Tennessee Williams

I don't do weddings, funerals or Tupperware parties. — Pamela Kay Walker

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

Enemies always attend each other's funerals. I guess it is a way of knowing they won... — M.C.V. Egan

Sympathy is why when a man is getting mugged, you let him keep his shirt after you take his life. Funerals are respectable affairs, after all. — Bauvard

Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it. — Steve Earle

they had merely acquired
a shared affection for funerals
the way some people
love public holidays: — Thabo Jijana

People dress up for funerals. Why not dress up to celebrate that you're alive? — Gay Talese

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

Funerals, I had decided, were for the living. — John Green

What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends. — Delmore Schwartz

Funerals, I decided, are for the living. - Hazel Grace Lancaster — John Green

I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning. — Humphrey Bogart

We may all host ourselves to death, and if we're all dead who will host our funerals? — Amy Poehler

New cells are born everyday and old cells die, but they have neither funerals nor birthdays. — Thich Nhat Hanh

This is life. It's not a dress rehearsal. If we don't do this now, we may as well start planning our own funerals. — Alastair Reynolds

I've been to livelier funerals," grumbled Herb. — Leslie Meier

We're living tragedies, just passing time 'til our funerals. — Robyn Schneider

I never saw a dollar bill cry at anyone's funeral. — J. Lincoln Fenn

Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics. — Alexander Smith

Given the circumstances, I think the rabbi did a very good job. What did you think?"
"It's my policy not to review funerals. — A.M. Homes

Funerals often make us want sex - it's one in the eye for death. — Thomas Harris

Traditionally, even numbers of flowers are only suitable for funerals and cemeteries. For all other occasions, Russians use an odd number of flowers. — Julia Gousseva

How vulgar funerals must seem to the dead! — Marty Rubin

A eugoogoolizer ... one who speaks at funerals ... Or did you think I was too stupid to know what a eugoogooly was? — Ben Stiller

I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death. — Baron De Montesquieu

God helps everything come to pass. However, he reminds us that nothing comes to stay. — Shannon L. Alder

So, my sweet, did it put the fun into funeral? — Johnny Rich

Sometimes funerals and weddings bring out the worst rather than the best in people. — Jeanne Phillips

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

Politics, n. For the Elder Races, this generally involves bloodshed of some sort and a spate of funerals. — Thea Harrison

I guess I do prefer a ball cap. I have performed without a cap, mostly at funerals and weddings. — Rodney Atkins

If men refuse to be kindled, sparks can only burn themselves out, just as paper images and carriages burn out on the street during funerals. — Lu Xun

Philadelphia fans would boo funerals, an Easter egg hunt, a parade of armless war vets and the Liberty Bell. — Bo Belinsky

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. — Hedy Lamarr

Funerals...are for the living. — John Green

Funerals are all abstract ceremony. — Chuck Palahniuk

Always remember this: If you don't attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours. — H.L. Mencken

On going to funerals: "You don't have to say anything. By showing up you are reassuring them that they are not alone. Just being there is enough. — Kunal Nayyar

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. — Thomas Lynch

I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out — Gayle Forman

Funerals consist of older generations initiating the younger into another adulthood. Filling spaces of the one passed. — Darnell Lamont Walker

I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high. — Albert Brooks

Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence. — J.G. Ballard

Funerals seem less about comforting the souls of these dearly departed than about
comforting the people they leave behind. — Rin Chupeco

You should always go to other people funerals, or they wont go to yours. — Babe Ruth

You never remember who came to the funeral, but you never forget who didn't. — Christopher Buckley

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly. — Mark Twain

Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived. — Aaron Eckhart

Another weird thing about funerals: Wear black but kill something as colorful as flowers to decorate. — Harlan Coben

Cinemascope is not for men, but for snakes and funerals. — Fritz Lang

I only wear suits to funerals and I only cash checks when the bank is about to take the house.
from surely he's dead by now — K.R. Albers

Welcome to Israel, where chanting "Death to Arabs" is democracy, running over children is equality, and firing on funerals is peace. — Remi Kanazi

Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician. — Ben Jonson

Funerals aren't for the dead. They're for the living. — Gavin Extence

Sometimes the truth don't rhyme, sometime the lies get millions of views, funerals for little girls is that appealing to you? — Chance The Rapper

Sometimes funerals can be good. It reunites you with your cousins you haven't seen in a while. — David Burtka

Death says a million words that the heart can't pen. — Shannon L. Alder

Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed. — P. J. O'Rourke

LIFE IS LIVE ITS OWN..OTHERS HELP IS NEEDED IN FUNERALS ONLY — Bhagat Singh

There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell. — Haruki Murakami

I decided, then, that funerals are for the living — John Green

All death reminds us that nothing is promised, only that life was worth it. — Shannon L. Alder

We don't do funerals in my family. — Marie Helvin

Normally I didn't attend my father's funerals unless I was scheduled to sing, but it wasn't every day Dad buried a rock star. — Linda Budzinski

Glorious Destinies get you Glorious Funerals. — Mercedes Lackey

No mourners," Jesper said as he tossed his rifle to Rotty. "No funerals," the rest of the Dregs murmured in reply. — Leigh Bardugo

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. — Carmelo Anthony

During my first year as a pastor I performed funerals for 50 church members - and they were the wrong ones. — Roy Bell

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

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

Death was a big part of my life growing up. I went to lots of funerals. — Madonna Ciccone

After Auschwitz, I no longer cry at funerals. — Charlotte Delbo

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

Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions. — Herman Melville

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

When many people are killed, they should be mourned and lamented. Those who are victorious in war should follow the rites of funerals. — Laozi

Directing a funeral isn't about death at all. Funerals are for the living, not the dead. — Rebecca McNutt

Weddings and funerals are when you figure out who your real friends are. — Amy Dickinson

Funerals are for the living, Jace, not for the dead. — Cassandra Clare

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

This stupidity of sounding a siren and speeding through traffic with a coffin must be an African speciality. — Nana Awere Damoah

You lose the known package of your nice organized self almost instantly here. Overeating is one way back, the way it is at funerals at home. — Anne Lamott

See you in Djerholm harbour," Specht called. "No mourners." "No funerals," the others replied. Strange people. — Leigh Bardugo

The smell of oranges has always reminded me of funerals. — Lauren Oliver

You know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings. — Jimmy Dean

You know how funerals are not for the dead, they're for the living? Bachelor parties are not for the groom, they're for the uncommitted. — Bill Murray

There was something about funerals. It made you see things better. A funeral a day and I'd be rich. — Charles Bukowski

We don't plan funerals till the body is dead. — Nilesh Rathod

A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days. — C. Everett Koop

He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals. — Mark Twain

No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for 'good luck. — Leigh Bardugo

If you don't go to other men's funerals, they won't go to yours. — Clarence Day

No Mourners.
No Funerals. — Leigh Bardugo

You can easily take photographs at a wedding - no one would question it. But funerals are different. — Martin Parr

We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: "Too bad we can't get together more often". — Bernard Berenson

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

Funerals prove that someone is really gone. — Mason Cooley