Funeral Quotes - Page 10

• I hope you die.... P.S. If you do die, I'm going to go to the funeral and finger your corpse.

  Michael Ian Black

  Fingers, Corpses, Dies

  Michael Ian Black (2008). “My Custom Van: And 50 Other Mind-Blowing Essays that Will Blow Your Mind All Over Your Face”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Dying, Faces, Not Happy

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• When you're at a funeral and you're crying, you're crying for yourself

  Thomas S. Monson

  Grief, Grieving, Cry

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• How can so much beauty hide such a bruised and steely heart, and why must I love him, why must I lean in my weariness upon his irresistible yet indomitable strength? Is he not the wizend funeral spirit of a dead man in a child's clothes?

  Anne Rice

  Children, Heart, I Love Him

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• Standing Here My entire world far beneath my feet, I should be filled with pride. Instead, I feel overwhelmed by a sense of defeat. Suddenly it comes to me, toes tempted to test the ledge, that there is a way out of this. Clam surety flows through my veins, and as I turn to wave good-bye, I wonder if it will hurt or if a single person will cry at my funeral. I take a deep breath, a final taste of sweet mountain air. I conjure Leona, Emily. Move my feet closer. Closer There's Grandma One, Grandma Two, and their spouses, waiting for me. I see Dad. Cara. Mommy. I screw up my courage, step over

  Ellen Hopkins

  Sweet, Hurt, Dad

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• I never go to weddings. Waste of time. Person can get married a dozen times. Lots of folks do. Family like ours, know everybody in the state of Texas and around outside, why, you could spend your life going to weddings. But a funeral, that's different. You only die once.

  Edna Ferber

  Texas, Different, Dozen

  Edna Ferber (1952). “Giant”

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• Relax, Medea. We’ve come to see your mother. (Tory) Your funeral. (Medea) It’s always so good to see you, too. You’re just such a ray of happy sunshine. I so look forward to all our interactions. (Tory)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Sunshine, Relax

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• Some other memories of the funeral have stuck in my mind. The old boy’s face, for instance, when he caught up with us for the last time, just outside the village. His eyes were streaming with tears, of exhaustion or distress, or both together. But because of the wrinkles they couldn’t flow down. They spread out, crisscrossed, and formed a smooth gloss on the old, worn face.

  Albert Camus

  Memories, Eye, Boys

  ALBERT CAMUS (1942). “THE Stranger”

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• You owe me!" -Stephanie "Why do I owe you?" -Joe "I caught your no good cousin." -Stephanie "Yeah and in the process you burned down a funeral home, and damaged thousands of dollars of government property." -Joe "Well if you are going to be picky about it...." -Stephanie

  Janet Evanovich

  Cousin, Home, Government

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• I want to die consciously, without fear, and without anger. Three things. I see my friends dying with fear and anger and it's terrible. My grandmother kept her clothes ready for 40 years for her funeral. She lived to 103! But she kept the clothes in a cupboard. As the styles changed, she changed the clothes! I think if I start now with my funeral, it's good.

  Marina Abramovic

  Grandmother, Thinking, Style

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In death a hero, as in life a friend!

  Alexander Pope

  Death, Hero, Dying

  Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1839). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In 1 volume”, p.321

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• Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.

  Alexander Pope

  Years, Age, Clear

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.168

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• Weapons are the tools of violence;all decent men detest them.Weapons are the tools of fear;a decent man will avoid themexcept in the direst necessityand, if compelled, will use themonly with the utmost restraint.Peace is his highest value.If the peace has been shattered,how can he be content?His enemies are not demons,but human beings like himself.He doesn't wish them personal harm.Nor does he rejoice in victory.How could he rejoice in victoryand delight in the slaughter of men?He enters a battle gravely,with sorrow and with great compassion,as if he were attending a funeral

  Laozi

  Peace, Compassion, Men

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• Every funeral may justly be considered as a summons to prepare for that state into which it shows us that we must some time enter; and the summons is more loud and piercing as the event of which it warns us is at less distance. To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; but to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Distance, Sleep, Preparation

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• One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke. Don't get attached to anything. This attachment takes you away from your real being; you become focused on the thing to which you are attached. Your awareness gets lost in things, in money, in people, in power. And there are a thousand and one things, the whole thick jungle around you, to be lost in. Remember, non-attachment is the secret of finding yourself, then awareness can turn inwards because you don't have anything outside to catch hold of. It is free, and in this freedom you can know your self-nature.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Attachment, Self

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• Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Mistake, Errors, Isolation

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.588, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Death, Good Night, Morning

  Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.175, Broadview Press

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• Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite
  Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love.
  News from the humming city comes to it
  It sound of funeral or of marriage bells.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Summer, Garden, Cities

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.102, Cambridge University Press

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• Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved.

  Jeanie (Jenny) Cameron

  Grief, Medicine, Listening

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• A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.

  Maya Angelou

  Sympathy, Condolences, Together Again

  Twitter post from Sep 25, 2016

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• I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided

  Robert Tappan Morris

  Funny, Death, Hate

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• View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn't

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Happiness, Spiritual, Views

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• I foresee a great funeral contest over me.

  Alexander the Great

  Last Words, Contests

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• With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Mirth

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 1

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• Michael O'Sullivan was my great friend. But I don't ever remember telling him that. The words that are spoken at a funeral are spoken too late for the man who is dead.

  Ian Bannen

  Death, Men, Dying

  "Fictional character: Jackie O'Shea". "Waking Ned", 1998.

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