Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Piazza

In New Orleans, the funeral traditions are there to remind you that life goes on,

Kathy Burke

I never thought there could be so much life in a funeral home.

H. L. Mencken

Always remember this: If you don't attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.

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.

Jessica Mitford

Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control.

Jesse Eisenberg

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.

Ian MacKaye

The archiving industry, much like the funeral industry and the wedding industry, these industries can be very exploitative.

Because of operational reasons we can't get back to the UK for funerals so it was just played as a mark of respect to the three guys who were lost out here last week,

I didn't think the funeral director's stand was in keeping with the centre.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

It’s so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.

Pauline Kael

I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know.

Pope Francis

An evangelizer must never look like someone who has just come back from a funeral.

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.

Quintus Ennius

Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.

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.

Rabindranath Tagore

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

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).

Julie Burchill

A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.

Judith McNaught

At my age, I regard each funeral I attend as a personal triumph, because I was not the guest of honor.

Patrick Dempsey

A wedding is like a funeral, but with musicians.

Nick Carter

I wanted to be at my sister's funeral, but my family has always had a complicated dynamic.

Paul Samuelson

Funeral by funeral, theory advances.

John Green

Funerals...are for the living.

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.

Nazr Mohammed

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.

Mark Twain

Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.

Mari Evans

When I die I'm sure I will have a Big Funeral

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.

Maria Edgeworth

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

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.

Irvin S. Cobb

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

Neil Gaiman

It's not what I'd want for at my funeral. When I die, I just want them to plant me somewhere warm. And then when the pretty women walk over my grave I would grab their ankles, like in that movie.

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.