Funeral Quotes - Page 9

I like a decent funeral, and God knows in my family we've seen enough of them. Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.

You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.

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 of your control.

The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite.

The kings of terrors, the last enemy, will never be able to breach the pearly gates and disturb the bliss of heaven! No more deathbed vigils or funerals. The hearse will have made its last journey.

If I fall and break my neck, will you say something nice at my funeral?" "Like 'Kyler was usually more graceful?

Michael O'Sullivan was my great friend. But I don't ever remember telling him that. The words that are spoken at a funeral are spoken too late for the man who is dead.

What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps.

He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

The past is a funeral gone by.

Most souls attend their funerals and have some feelings about them, but it's such an individual event. Some souls don't care what happens to their physical bodies. They see the funeral as a ritual for the living so they don't always attend.

I've been in so many funeral scenes from The Sopranos, and I think I've even been in one on Sons of Anarchy. Those scenes, as a human being, are the most tedious scenes, of all time. You're waiting, all day, in the blistering hot heat. So, I didn't need to be there.

Life's too short for a funeral.

There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing in God amounts to coming to terms with death. When you have accepted death, the problem of God will be solved, and not the reverse.

When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.

In New Orleans the funerals remind us that Life is bigger than any individual life, and it will roll on, and for the short time that your individual life joins the big stream of Life, cut some decent steps, for God’s sake.

That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. "Save them for my funeral," I'd said.

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

My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.

Someone trying to be funny probably isn't as funny as someone who doesn't want to be funny but is and can't help it. Someone being serious or angry might be funny. If you get angry, the first thing I want to do is laugh because I don't know why you're getting that angry. Pathos makes me laugh, funerals make me laugh.

Eerily, the coronation was kind of a reverse of Tatianaʹs funeral. What was the old saying? The queen is dead. Long live the queen

One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke.

I wanted to be at my sister's funeral, but my family has always had a complicated dynamic.

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.