Funerals Quotes
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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
they had merely acquired
a shared affection for funerals
the way some people
love public holidays: — Thabo Jijana
a shared affection for funerals
the way some people
love public holidays: — Thabo Jijana
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
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
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
"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
comforting the people they leave behind. — Rin Chupeco
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
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
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
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
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 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
No Mourners.
No Funerals. — Leigh Bardugo
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