Funeral Quotes
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My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the fees rise in proportion; but when a healthy wind blows, they fall accordingly.
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You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.
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... the introduction of the doctrine of polygamy was the first time in my life that I desired the grave, and I could hardly get over it for a long time. And when I saw a funeral, I felt to envy the corpse its situation.
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These are the final rites of the funeral of the Cold War, with Russia as a friend and ally and no longer as an enemy.
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There are songs about abortions, about slashing your arms with razors, about imagining your own funeral in New Orleans, about rock stars cheating on their wives, sex.
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What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
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The Madiba song may have ended, but its melody lingers on.
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When I die I'm sure I will have a Big Funeral.
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In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.
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In the funeral home, I never heard laughter like that in my life. The audience was laughing on the screen, and we were laughing in the home.
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An elephant funeral makes me weep every time, and so does an ad with a kid leaving home for college.
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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.
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Immigration along with nonwhite birthrates will make white people a minority totally vulnerable to the political, social, and economic will of blacks, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Orientals. A social upheaval is now beginning to occur that will be the funeral dirge of the America we love. I shudder to contemplate the future under nonwhite occupation; rapes, murders, robberies multiplied a hundred fold, illiteracy such as in Haiti, medicine such as in Mexico, and tyranny such as in Togoland.
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I tweeted that I wanted Little Mix's 'Touch' played at my funeral - I think that'd be a great song to send me into the abyss.
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I think you should live your life so that the maximum number of people will attend your funeral.
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I hope you die.... P.S. If you do die, I'm going to go to the funeral and finger your corpse.
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Life's too short for a funeral.
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A funeral was a great form of entertainment. A wake was a great form of entertainment.
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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
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When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis. I went round the night my mother was lying in the kitchen, and I organised everything, from the undertaker to the funeral... I looked after everybody, I sorted it all out and Ive done so ever since.
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An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.
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The dead never go to their own funeral.
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Every now and then I think about my own death, and I think about my own funeral. Every now and then I ask myself, 'What is it that I would want said?' I'd like somebody to mention that day, that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to give his life serving others. I'd like for somebody to say that day, that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to love somebody.
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Worldly faces, never look so worldly as at a funeral.
