Funeral Quotes - Page 6

• I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.

  John Green

  Encouragement, Bullshit, Parent

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.273, Penguin

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• Yeah, like, when I look back on my life, I just remember back what happened in '74, or something. It seems like only the real good stuff comes to mind. I don't think of all the tragedies and all the funerals. That just doesn't come to mind at all. I guess I'm really blessed that way.

  Gregg Allman

  Real, Blessed, Thinking

  "Musician Gregg Allman". "Tell Tavis" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 23, 2012.

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• Ceremony assists people to adjust to change (a marriage ceremony does this for families), to recognize achievement (a classic example is a graduation ceremony), to relate, to express love, and/or to establish a relationship. Ceremonies are the human way we have to signpost a deal such as a business merger, to trigger off a healthy grief process (such as in divorce or funeral ceremonies), to welcome another human being into the family. So Ceremonies have these excellent effects - they can be used further to announce intentions, to express loyalty and to reinforce a sense of identity.

  Dally Messenger

  Loyalty, Grief, Divorce

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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

  Kissing, Dear Ones, Giving

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• Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage.

  Jean Anouilh

  Courage, Men

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• Funerals...are for the living.

  John Green

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• I'm not allergic to fashion. I'm just one of those people who when they put on a suit look like they're going to a funeral or to court.

  Dave Grohl

  Fashion, People, Suits

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• A funeral is for those left behind. Sometimes, one wonders if the weeping is more out of fear for ourselves than it is sympathy for the deceased.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Fear, Sometimes, Wonder

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• A comedy ends with a wedding, and a tragedy ends with a funeral: you always have to juxtapose sex and death.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sex, Tragedy, Comedy

  Source: the-talks.com

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• I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Hate, Mourning, Guy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I fall asleep in the full and certain hope That my slumber shall not be broken; And that, though I be all-forgetting, Yet shall I not be all-forgotten, But continue that life in the thoughts and deeds of those I have loved.

  Samuel Butler

  Death, Prayer, Fall

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited”, p.260, Courier Dover Publications

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• It's different when the person you love dies. There's an awful finality to death. But it is final. The end. And there's the funeral, family gatherings, grieving, all of those necessary rituals. And they help, believe me. When the object of your love just disappears, there's no way to deal with the grief and pain.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Pain, Believe, Grief

  Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sue Monk Kidd (2001). “Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest”

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• 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.

  Gary Numan

  Play, Want, Way

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

  Marina Abramovic

  "AP Interview: Being Marina Abramovic, Serbia-born performance artist relaxes iron self-control". www.foxnews.com. October 06, 2012.

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

  John Clare

  Past, Men

  'The Past'

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• Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Attention, Littles, Pay

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.219

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• Once again your mind explodes with a searing pain. A floodgate of memories bursts wide. Yet it is her face that keeps haunting you. Always her face. Who is she? Then things begin to crystallize. You remember your funeral. Begging and pleading for someone to release you from the darkness. You're not dead. You can't be. Then you feel her presence. Warm, caring, soothing. But somewhere deep inside she feels empty now. She has no reason. No meaning. No soul. But your soul lives. While her's is dying.

  Todd McFarlane

  Life, Pain, Memories

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• At Ken Lay's funeral service the minister compared him to Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior. The difference is Dr. King had a dream, Ken Lay had a scheme.

  Jay Leno

  Dream, Kings, Differences

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• People get way too much credit at funerals.

  Neal Brennan

  People, Too Much, Way

  Source: filmschoolrejects.com

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• When Malcolm X was assassinated I was working at the Apollo. They brought his body to the Unity Funeral Home, which was around the corner.

  Etta James

  Home, Unity, Apollo

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• Don't go to the funeral until the day of the funeral - live this day.

  Valerie Harper

  This Day

  "Valerie Harper On Cancer: ‘We’re All Terminal’" by Matthew Jacobs, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2013.

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

  Judith McNaught

  Honor, Age, Triumph

  Judith McNaught (2016). “Paradise”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The builder oak, sole king of forests all, The aspin good for staves, the cypress funeral, The laurel, meed of mighty conquerors And poets sage, the fir that weepest still, The yew obedient to the bender's will, The birch for shafts, the sallow for the mill, The myrrh sweet-bleeding in the bitter wound, The warlike beech, the ash for nothing ill, The fruitful olive, and the platane round, The carver holm, the maple seldom inward sound.

  Edmund Spenser

  Sweet, Kings, Tree

  1590 The Faerie Queen, bk.1, canto 1, stanzas 8-9. plantan=plane tree; holme=holly.

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• My biggest blast-off hit was "You Raise Me Up." If you ever have a wedding or a funeral, it's a good pick.

  Josh Groban

  Wedding, Blast, Raises

  "Crazy Stupid Groban". Interview with Lauren Bans, www.gq.com. July 27, 2011.

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• No matter how great a man is, the size of his funeral usually depends on the weather.

  Rosemary Clooney

  Men, Weather, Matter

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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