Funeral Quotes - Page 20

• Imagine yourself at your funeral. Ask yourself what you want your family and friends to say about you. How will you be remembered and what impact will you have had on other people's lives? How did you make the world a better place?

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Bodybuilding, Impact

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• You don't want to be like the motion picture exec who had so many people at his funeral, but they were there just make sure he was dead. Or how about the guy who, at his funeral, the priest said, "Won't anyone stand up and say anything nice for the deceased?" and finally someone said, "Well, his brother was worse."

  Charlie Munger

  Brother, Nice, People

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• Christ never preached any funeral sermons.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Death, Prayer, Children

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• we dance even if there's no radio. we drink at funerals. we talk too much & laugh too loud & live too large, and, frankly, we're suspicious of others who don't.

  Chris Rose

  New Orleans, Laughing, Radio

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• It is these black clothes," said Strange. "I am like a leftover piece of funeral, condemned to walk about the Town, frightening people into thinking of their own mortality.

  Susanna Clarke

  Thinking, Clothes, People

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.681, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I'd say 3/4 of advertising works on pure Pavlov. Think how association, pure association, works. Take Coca-Cola company (we're the biggest share-holder). They want to be associated with every wonderful image: heroics in the Olympics, wonderful music, you name it. They don't want to be associated with presidents' funerals and so-forth.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Names, President

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• 'I shall have heaven and earth for my coffin and its shell; the sun and moon for my two round symbols of jade, the stars and constellations for my pearls and jewels; and all things assisting as the mourners. Will not the provisions for my funeral be complete? What could you add to them?'

  Zhuangzi

  Stars, Moon, Jewels

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• I hunted all through the four Gospels trying to find one of Christ's funeral sermons, but I couldn't find any. I found He broke up every funeral He ever attended! Death couldn't exist where He was.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Trying, Four, Christ

  Dwight L Moody (2013). “Moody's Last Sermons”, p.14, Moody Publishers

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• Conduct your triumph as a funeral.

  Laozi

  Triumph, Management

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• I order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song or music.

  Giuseppe Verdi

  Song, Order, Dawn

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• I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.

  Albert Brooks

  Running, People, Emotion

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• Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals when their cheery effect is needed.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Birthday, Cards, Greeting Card

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Inarticulate wretches have been behind most of the major advances in civilization. If Vincent Van Gogh had been able to get on with his neighbours, then he might have become an excellent painter-decorator, and received a big turn out at his funeral, and that would be that. But the genes wouldn't let him.

  Declan Lynch

  Civilization, Would Be, Genius

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• His pear-shaped head, I could now see, was situated on top of a pear-shaped body, which his black gown caused to resemble a piece of fruit going to a funeral.

  Clive James

  Black, Fruit, Gowns

  Clive James (2009). “May Week Was In June”, p.16, Pan Macmillan

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• The actions of the police division today will be to assist the church for the funeral. We anticipate that a fairly large crowd will be outside the church and the general area, ... We're trying to approach everything with common sense.

  Thomas Streicher

  Common Sense, Police, Church

  " 'Crucial day' begins in Cincinnati", www.cnn.com. April 14, 2001.

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• 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.

  Ezra Koenig

  Enemy, Periods, Invited

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• 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.

  Mary Roach

  Ordinary, Cadavers, Decay

  Mary Roach (2004). “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers”, p.82, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Love is the funeral of hearts.

  Ville Valo

  Heart, Love Is

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

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• Films, like memories, seem to re-shoot themselves over the years, reflecting our latest needs and obsessions. In many cases they can change completely, and reveal unexpected depths and shallows. Will Four Weddings and a Funeral be seen one day as a vicious social satire? Could Jaws become as tearful and sentimental as Bambi?

  J. G. Ballard

  Memories, Years, One Day

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• A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.

  E. M. Forster

  Death, Men, Baptism

  E.M. Forster (2015). “Howards End”, p.101, Sheba Blake Publishing

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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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• White for Shadowhunters is the color of funerals," Luke explained. “ But for mundanes, Jace, it’ s the color of weddings. Brides wear white to symbolize their purity.” “I thought Jocelyn said her dress wasn’t white,” Simon said. “Well,” said Jace, “I suppose that ship has sailed.” Luke choked on his coffee.

  Cassandra Clare

  Coffee, Color, White

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1371, Simon and Schuster

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• I guess I do prefer a ball cap. I have performed without a cap, mostly at funerals and weddings.

  Rodney Atkins

  Balls, Caps

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• There are songs about abortions, about slashing your arms with razors, about imagining your own funeral in New Orleans, about rock stars cheating on their wives, sex.

  Courtney Love

  Cheating, Song, Sex

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• Eerily, the coronation was kind of a reverse of Tatianaʹs funeral. What was the old saying? The queen is dead. Long live the queen

  Richelle Mead

  Queens, Long, Kind

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