Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herman Melville

Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions.

Ian MacKaye

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

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.

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.

Francois Rabelais

I am going to seek the great Perhaps.

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.

Mark Twain

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

Mason Cooley

Funerals prove that someone is really gone.

John Williams

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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.

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.

John Green

Funerals...are for the living.

David Berg

Death is the funeral of all our sorrows.

If you're told by the funeral home that it's a 45-year-old woman and you show up and she's 90 years old, there's a problem.

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.

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.

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.

Joan Rivers

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

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.

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 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.

Nick Carter

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

Marina Abramovic

You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.

Fred Savage

All I want to do is find out where my mama is and have a funeral for her.

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.

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.

Lin Yutang

A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.

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?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Peggy Noonan

The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is a strain, so they get depressed; they have to be sad at funerals, which is easy, so they get happy.