Funeral Quotes

• Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

  Quintus Ennius

  Death, Men, Grieving

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• I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I've had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral.

  Lord Mountbatten

  Death, Prayer, Thinking

  In Richard Hough Mountbatten (1980) p. 3

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• According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Motivational, Death

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• A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

  Eddie Cantor

  Marriage, Wedding, Flower

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

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• In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.

  Irving Berlin

  Positive, Music, Death

  Title of song (1927)

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• When words are most empty, tears are most apt.

  Max Lucado

  Eulogy, Tears, Empty

  Max Lucado (2010). “Chronicles of the Cross Collection”, p.56, Harper Collins

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• People will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.37, Random House

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• The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Death, People, Reason

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• I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Home, Breathing, Feel Good

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.38, W. W. Norton & Company

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• And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

  Walt Whitman

  Sympathy, Leaves Of Grass, Walks

  Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.41, Wildside Press LLC

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• Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Death

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 9, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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

  Joyce Grenfell

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Discovery, Joy

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• Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

  Jack Kornfield

  Wisdom, Peace, Buddhist

  Twitter post from Jan 19, 2015

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• Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every rescuer who died in honor. We will remember every family that lives in grief. We will remember the fire and ash, the last phone calls, the funerals of the children.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Grief, Patriotic

  First Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 10 November 2001, U.N. Headquarters, New York

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• I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Memories, Lasts, Breathe

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

  Garrison Keillor

  Funny, Death, Nice

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• It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Wise, Wisdom, Literature

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.312, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!

  Rick Wakeman

  Play, Hiking, Coffins

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• Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.

  Clarence Darrow

  People, Church, May

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  I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

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

  Maria Edgeworth

  Fancy, My Own, Dies

  Maria Edgeworth (2005). “Tales and Novels”, p.52

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• To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Life, Lonely, Heart

  "Les Fleurs du Mal", "Le Guignon", a quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 440-55, 1922.

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• My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Fathers Day, Wedding, Baby

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

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• I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music, have children to my music and play my music at their funerals.

  Wynonna Judd

  Children, Reading, Play

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