Funeral Quotes

I don't have any set things that I'm looking for, like, 'I've done this now I want to do this,' kind of thing. Just read the material, if it appeals, if it makes me laugh: like, 'Death at a Funeral' made me laugh out loud.

Alan Tudyk
- Done
- Death
- Funeral
The dead never go to their own funeral.

Carlo D'Este
- Dead
- Funeral
- To Go

He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back... I went to his funeral in Belfast.

Frank McCourt
- Up
- Work
- Mother
Worldly faces, never look so worldly as at a funeral.

George Eliot
- Funeral
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale: to an observer in the Andromeda nebula, the sign of our extinction would be no more than a match flaring for a second in the heavens: and if that match does blaze in the darkness there will be none to mourn a race that used a power that could have lit a beacon in the stars to light its funeral pyre. The choice is ours.

Stanley Kubrick
- Heaven
- Choices
- Darkness
Truscott: Why aren't you both at the funeral? I thought you were mourners.Fay: We decided not to go. We were afraid we might break down.Truscott: That's a selfish attitude to take. The dead can't bury themselves, you know.

Joe Orton
- Why
- Attitude
- Selfish
Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.

Steve Earle
- Doubt
- Pagan
- Rite
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.

Stuart Rose
- Mother
- Father
- Night