Funeral Quotes

Life is lived on its ownother's shoulders are used only at the time of funeral.

We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.

If any of you cry at my funeral I'll never speak to you again.

I think you should control yourself a little bit, so you can walk, and when you die, you can walk to your own funeral.

When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.

Someday I'll wish upon a star And wake up where the clouds Are far behind me Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops that's where you'll find me

Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.

A Muslim has five duties towards another Muslim; to return a salutation, visit the sick, follow funerals, accept an invitation and say 'God have mercy on you' when one sneezes.

Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.

Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.

You know how funerals are not for the dead, they’re for the living? Bachelor parties are not for the groom, they’re for the uncommitted.

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.

It doesn't matter how big a ranch you own or how many cows you brand, the size of your funeral is still gonna depend on the weather.

I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah.

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.

I don't suppose I can wear the flamingo tie," he said as he pulled on black socks. "It's a bit festive, given the occasion," I responded. "Can't wear it to the opera," said the Colonel, almost smiling. "Can't wear it to a funeral. Can't use it to hang myself. It's a bit useless, as ties go." I gave him a tie.

A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.

At my funeral, I want Meryl Streep crying in five different accents.

I foresee a great funeral contest over me.

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.

If I had taken my doctor's advice and quit smoking when he advised me to, I wouldn't have lived to go to his funeral.

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.

The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.

Everyone dies but not everyone lives.

There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.

The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.

Science advances one funeral at a time.

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.

I want them to play Britney Spears at my funeral. This way I won't feel so bad about being dead, and everyone there will know there is something worse than Death.

The dead don't die. They look on and help.

Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.

You can spend your whole life trying to be popular, but at the end of the day, the size of the crowd at your funeral will be largely dictated by the weather.

In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism.

we dance even if there's no radio. we drink at funerals. we talk too much & laugh too loud & live too large, and, frankly, we're suspicious of others who don't.

People dress up for funerals. Why not dress up to celebrate that you’re alive?

A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be.

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

Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.

Love is the funeral of hearts.

What am I most ashamed of in my life? Not keeping my promise to my sister and being too scared of America to attend her funeral.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Life for the majority of the population. Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds. Culminating in a cheap funeral.

I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.

I order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song or music.

Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ... unless it had been a first-class circus.

I've just had some bad news. Tomorrow is the mother in law's funeral. And she's cancelled it.

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

What we do every St. Patty's day, which is wear green and drink a lot of Guinness. And maybe cry a little bit and laugh, and everyone will have to sing a song. That's how every funeral, christening, and wedding ends up in Ireland. Everyone ends up having to sing a song by the end of it.

When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.

Why should i go to his funeral? He ain't comming to mine.