Funeral Quotes - Page 2

• To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

  Thomas Campbell

  Sympathy, Death, Memories

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.169

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• Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

  Rumi

  Home, Eulogy, Headstone

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.28, Penguin UK

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• When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.

  Natalie Portman

  Years, Grandpa, Littles

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• I checked myself out in that funeral parlour scene. I saw myself laughing, because there was a shot of Ed and I together and Mary was right in back of us. My head turned from the camera and I saw myself laughing, because Mary was absolutely brilliant in that thing.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Laughing, Together, Cameras

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• The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.

  Simon Hoggart

  Party, Dinner, Spontaneity

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• As soon as people see my face on a movie screen, they knew two things: first, I'm not going to get the girl, and second, I'll get a cheap funeral before the picture is over.

  Lee Marvin

  Girl, Ghouls, Two

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• Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

  Rosalind Russell

  Memorable, Political, Affair

  "Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies". Book by John Walker (p. 383), 2001.

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• Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

  George Eliot

  Moving, Past, Cities

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.211, Booklassic

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• The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

  T. S. Eliot

  Done, Tickets, Programming

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• The big debate right now is if Saddam is alive or dead. He's dead, then he's alive, then dead, then alive. It's just confusing. Today they showed videotape, and Saddam was speaking at his own funeral.

  David Letterman

  Confusing, Alive, Today

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• When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Men, Bells

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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  Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  c.1860 Complete Poems, no.254 (first published 1891).

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• You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Death, Hilarious

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

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• I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

  Erma Bombeck

  Giving, May, Hats

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• I wanted to make a human monster. His name is Coffin Baby. The idea is based on a group of people from Pasadena whose names I can't mention. His mother died and during the funeral, this baby came out of her in the coffin

  Tobe Hooper

  Mother, Baby, Names

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• I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Death, Witty

  Quoted in L.A. Times, 28 Nov. 1954

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• Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  " 'Hope' is the thing with feathers" l. 1 (ca. 1862) SeeWoody Allen 20

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• Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

  George Eliot

  Night, Voice, Silence

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3820, Delphi Classics

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• Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

  St. Jerome

  Mother, Men, Law

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• If you don't go to other men's funerals, they won't go to yours.

  Clarence Day

  Funny, Death, Humor

  1935 Life With Father,'Father interferes'.

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• Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

  Charles Lamb

  Laughing, Awful, Make Me Laugh

  Letter to Robert Southey, 9 August 1815, in E. Marrs (ed.) 'The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb' vol. 3 (1978) p. 181

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• I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.

  Thomas Lynch

  People, Mourning, Retail

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• What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

  James Russell Lowell

  Pride, Men, Literature

  James Russell Lowell (1910). “Essays, English and American”

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• It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.

  Harold Brodkey

  Loss, Darkness, Form

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

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Eulogy, Defense, Belated

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