Funeral Quotes - Page 7

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats.

A piano store looks like a funeral parlor for music.

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.

Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy.

Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.

In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation’s funeral at our expense.

When words are most empty, tears are most apt.

I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.

Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.

If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places.

I got so many emails and text messages, my phone blew up because it couldn't handle everybody. It's like almost being at your own funeral because of the way the headline read.

The wheel of Time wrote the first half of the poetry of mass destruction on the black board of the ashes of a funeral ground by dint of a pair of pens of nuclear bombs.

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.

Everybody goes to the funeral, but everybody laughs when it's funny. While entertainment is happening, that's just what it is, entertainment - until it crosses over into a whole 'nother situation. And now, me maturing, I look back at a lot of things, pushing forward, some things won't get my attention. Some things don't deserve my energy. I won't put forth so much on things, you got to focus on what's the matter at hand. That's to put out timeless music, and great albums.

If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.

These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.

A psychiatrist once told me early in treatment, "Stop trying to make me like you," and what a sobering and welcome smack in the face that statement was. Yet somehow, every day of my life is still a campaign for popularity, or better yet, a crowded funeral.

Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control.

Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved.

Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage.

Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things.