Top Funeral Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Funeral quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Octave Mirbeau
Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy.
- Octave Mirbeau
Collection: Funeral
Image of Mary Downing Hahn
I was terrified of funerals.
- Mary Downing Hahn
Collection: Funeral
Image of Enoch Powell
It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. So insane are we that we actually permit unmarried persons to immigrate for the purpose of founding a family with spouses and fiancées whom they have never seen.
- Enoch Powell
Collection: Funeral
Image of Charles Bradlaugh
[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.
- Charles Bradlaugh
Collection: Funeral
Image of Jessica Mitford
Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control.
- Jessica Mitford
Collection: Funeral
Image of Mary Roach
The point is that no matter what you choose to do with your body when you die, it won't, ultimately, be very appealing. If you are inclined to donate yourself to science, you should not let images of dissection or dismemberment put you off. They are no more or less gruesome, in my opinion, than ordinary decay or the sewing shut of your jaws via your nostrils for a funeral viewing.
- Mary Roach
Collection: Funeral
Image of Thomas Lynch
A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be.
- Thomas Lynch
Collection: Funeral
Image of Steve Hockensmith
Walking out in the middle of a funeral would be, of course, bad form. So attempting to walk out on one's own was beyond the pale.
- Steve Hockensmith
Collection: Funeral
Image of Eloisa James
I would prefer not to throw myself on a funeral pyre. Please come back to me.
- Eloisa James
Collection: Funeral
Image of Rachel Klein
Why should I be sad? Everyone has to die. If you have a body, it's too late to cry. It's only funerals I can't stand.
- Rachel Klein
Collection: Funeral
Image of A.M. Homes
It's my policy not to review funerals.
- A.M. Homes
Collection: Funeral
Image of John Towner Williams
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- John Towner Williams
Collection: Funeral
Image of Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
Lord Randolph Churchill was the chief mourner at his own protracted funeral.
- Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
Collection: Funeral
Image of David Berg
Death is the funeral of all our sorrows.
- David Berg
Collection: Funeral
Image of Julie Burchill
A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.
- Julie Burchill
Collection: Funeral
Image of Bhagat Singh
Life is lived on its ownother's shoulders are used only at the time of funeral.
- Bhagat Singh
Collection: Funeral
Image of Patrick Dempsey
A wedding is like a funeral, but with musicians.
- Patrick Dempsey
Collection: Funeral
Image of Valerie Harper
Don't go to the funeral until the day of the funeral - live this day.
- Valerie Harper
Collection: Funeral
Image of Gustave Courbet
On the left is the realist tradition of the 19th century, with its impulse to social description, radical criticism and meditation on things as they are... culminating in Courbet at his mightiest (The Studio, The Funeral at Ornans and a portrait of a trout that has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion).
- Gustave Courbet
Collection: Funeral
Image of Isaac Butt
Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the funeral be perfectly private, with as few persons attending, and as little show and expense as possible.
- Isaac Butt
Collection: Funeral
Image of Marcus Miller
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.
- Marcus Miller
Collection: Funeral
Image of Karl Shapiro
Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the final say.
- Karl Shapiro
Collection: Funeral
Image of Ken Loach
About Thatcher's death: Let's privatise her funeral. Put it out on competetive tender and accept the cheapest bid. That's what she would have wanted.
- Ken Loach
Collection: Funeral
Image of Taitetsu Unno
To die or not to die ... we really don't have a choice. We can therefore only take care of our life-body, until the fullness of time and being ends our existence on earth.
- Taitetsu Unno
Collection: Funeral
Image of Charlotte Delbo
After Auschwitz, I no longer cry at funerals.
- Charlotte Delbo
Collection: Funeral
Image of Sybil Thorndike
I want Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D played at my funeral. If it isn't I shall jolly well want to know why.
- Sybil Thorndike
Collection: Funeral
Image of Mary Deasy
An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral.
- Mary Deasy
Collection: Funeral
Image of Echo Bodine
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.
- Echo Bodine
Collection: Funeral
Image of Ezra Koenig
But you know what? When I die, everybody is invited to come take a selfie at my funeral. Except for my enemies. They're not invited to the funeral, period.
- Ezra Koenig
Collection: Funeral
Image of Dwight L. Moody
I hunted all through the four Gospels trying to find one of Christ's funeral sermons, but I couldn't find any. I found He broke up every funeral He ever attended! Death couldn't exist where He was.
- Dwight L. Moody
Collection: Funeral
Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Collection: Funeral
Image of Tennessee Williams
And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
- Tennessee Williams
Collection: Funeral
Image of Michael Ian Black
I hope you die.... P.S. If you do die, I'm going to go to the funeral and finger your corpse.
- Michael Ian Black
Collection: Funeral
Image of Mark Twain
Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.
- Mark Twain
Collection: Funeral
Image of Lucy Maud Montgomery
It’s so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Collection: Funeral
Image of John Steinbeck
A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't even be there.
- John Steinbeck
Collection: Funeral
Image of Max Planck
Science advances funeral by funeral
- Max Planck
Collection: Funeral
Image of Chuck Palahniuk
Funerals are all abstract ceremony.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Collection: Funeral
Image of Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation’s funeral at our expense.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Collection: Funeral
Image of Jim Morrison
the time to hesitate is through no time to wallowin the mire Try now we can only lose and our love become a funeral pyre
- Jim Morrison
Collection: Funeral
Image of Bernard Berenson
We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: "Too bad we can't get together more often".
- Bernard Berenson
Collection: Funeral
Image of John Waters
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.
- John Waters
Collection: Funeral
Image of Terry Pratchett
Stop stealing the funeral meats right now, you wee scuggers!" She shouted. The Feegles stopped and stared at her. Then Rob Anybody said: "Socks wi'oot feets?
- Terry Pratchett
Collection: Funeral
Image of Rabindranath Tagore
Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Collection: Funeral
Image of Eugene H. Peterson
The Bible is not a script for a funeral service, but it is the record of God always bringing life where we expected to find death. Everywhere it is the story of resurrection.
- Eugene H. Peterson
Collection: Funeral
Image of Francois Rabelais
I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
- Francois Rabelais
Collection: Funeral
Image of Rachel Caine
Oh, hey, Claire,” she said, and blinked. “Where are you going?” “Funeral,” Shane said. On-screen, a zombie shrieked and died gruesomely. “Yeah? Cool! Whose?” “Hers.” Shane said.
- Rachel Caine
Collection: Funeral
Image of Judith McNaught
At my age, I regard each funeral I attend as a personal triumph, because I was not the guest of honor.
- Judith McNaught
Collection: Funeral
Image of Gayle Forman
It's a good thing Kerry's dead, because that funeral would've sent him over the edge," Henry said.
- Gayle Forman
Collection: Funeral