Funeral Quotes
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The dead never go to their own funeral.
Carlo D'Este
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Worldly faces, never look so worldly as at a funeral.
George Eliot
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Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.
Steve Earle
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I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish to pay a proper respect to the dead, unless their characters have been bad, and as I would wish to have the funeral of my own near relations or of myself well attended.
James Boswell
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Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father's funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that where Alzheimer's is concerned, we don't have proof that stem-cell treatment would be effective.
Patti Davis
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Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset?
Daniele Vare
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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.
Anil Dash
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What an incitation to hilarity, hearing the word goal while following a funeral procession!
Emil Cioran
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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
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My mum had 14 pregnancies - but only four of us survived. We had a little sister born for a few days and she died. There had to be a funeral.
Tyson Fury
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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
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I think it's very important to allow people into Ted Kennedy. Thousands of people lined the streets the day of his funeral.
Jason Clarke
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Funerals often make us want sex-it's one in the eye for death.
Thomas Harris
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If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, 'Your son was vaporized because we didn't want to dump some guy's head under water for 30 seconds.'
Peter T. King
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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
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No matter how great a man is, the size of his funeral usually depends on the weather.
Rosemary Clooney
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In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism.
Vladimir Lenin
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My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.
Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
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In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.
Albert Camus
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So many of us have loved ones and people we really care about, and the only time we show affection is when they are gone. I have preached at funerals, and you see loved ones who didnt even say hello to dear ones when they were alive. Give them hugs, kisses while they are alive and need it.
George Foreman
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Boros is not with the team today because he's attending his daughter's funeral. Oh, wait, it's her wedding.
Jerry Coleman
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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.
Reynolds Price
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Why should i go to his funeral? He ain't comming to mine.
Daniel Nielsen
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... non-White Arab birthrates will make White Jewish people a minority totally vulnerable to the political, social, and economic will of non-Whites Arabs. A social upheaval is now beginning to occur that will be the funeral dirge of the America Israel we love.
David Duke