Funeral Quotes - Page 6

People get way too much credit at funerals.

When I die I'm sure I will have a Big Funeral

never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.

God is coming to intersect us in our funeral processions.

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.

More people have a fear of speaking than a fear of death. So at a funeral, most people would want to be the person in the coffin rather than the person delivering the eulogy!

I am going to seek a grand perhaps.

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.

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

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

The Madiba song may have ended, but its melody lingers on.

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.

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.

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

With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.

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.

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

I will not insult you by trying to tell you that one day you will forget. I know as well as you that you will not. But, at least, in time you will not remember as fiercely as you do now - and I pray that that time may be soon.

And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.

To die or not to die ... we really don't have a choice. We can therefore only take care of our life-body, until the fullness of time and being ends our existence on earth.