Funeral Quotes - Page 21

• In Ethiopia, food is often looked at through a strong spiritual lens, stronger than anywhere else I know. It's the focal point of weddings, births and funerals and is a daily ceremony from the preparation of the meal and the washing of hands to the sharing of meals.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Spiritual, Strong, Hands

  "Everybody’s Talking About Food". Huffington Post Article, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2010.

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• The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing which we most want, happens to be the only thing we never purchase--our coffin.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Office, Complaining, Coffins

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.98

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• Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral.
  [Lat., Ultima semper
  Expectanda dies homini est, dicique beatus
  Ante obitum nemo et suprema funera debet.]

  Ovid

  Death, Men, Lasts

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• certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.

  Erica Jong

  People, Insane, Age

  Erica Jong (2013). “Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice”, p.136, Open Road Media

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• A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.

  Lin Yutang

  Chinese, Mind, Dying

  Yutang Lin (1936). “My country and my people”

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• How unfortunate it is to be constrained by what people might say at our funeral or on our gravestone.

  Lawrence Fagg

  People, Might, Gravestone

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• My grandfather had a wonderful funeral... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad.

  Woody Allen

  Food, Cooking, Grandfather

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• People need what they think of as a poem to be read at their bar mitzvah, their wedding, a funeral, whatever. And people are looking for hope and inspiration. I understand that.

  Joan Larkin

  Inspiration, Thinking, People

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• I'm not a suit and tie kind of guy. I wear a suit once a year, for the Hall of Fame, or if I have to go to a funeral or something. It's just not me.

  CM Punk

  Ties, Years, Guy

  Interview with Tom Breihan, www.gq.com. July 13, 2011.

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• Someone trying to be funny probably isn't as funny as someone who doesn't want to be funny but is and can't help it. Someone being serious or angry might be funny. If you get angry, the first thing I want to do is laugh because I don't know why you're getting that angry. Pathos makes me laugh, funerals make me laugh.

  Ricky Gervais

  Laughing, Trying, Want

  "Ricky Gervais Interview: 'Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb', Corpsing With Ben Stiller And The Best Bits Of His Job". HuffPostUK Intreview, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. July 4, 2015.

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• O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Where, indeed. Many a badly stung survivor, faced with the aftermath of some relative's funeral, has ruefully concluded that the victory has been won hands down by a funeral establishment - in disastrously unequal battle.

  Jessica Mitford

  Hands, Victory, Battle

  Jessica Mitford (2011). “The American Way of Death Revisited”, p.14, Vintage

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• Alas, poor Yorick! How surprised he would be to see how his counterpart of today is whisked off to a funeral parlor and is in short order sprayed, sliced, pierced, pickled, trussed, trimmed, creamed, waxed, painted, rouged and neatly dressed - transformed from a common corpse into a Beautiful Memory Picture.

  Jessica Mitford

  Beautiful, Memories, Order

  Jessica Mitford (2011). “The American Way of Death Revisited”, p.43, Vintage

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• So die as though your funeral
  Ushered you through the doors that led
  Into a stately banquet hall
  Where heroes banqueted.

  Alan Seeger

  Death, Hero, Doors

  Alan Seeger (2001). “Poems”

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• A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.

  Julie Burchill

  Pageantry, Masquerade, Deeper

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• I like a bit of color myself, I must say. At my time of life, if you wear nothing but black, people might think you were too mean to change frocks between funerals.

  Winifred Holtby

  Mean, Thinking, Color

  Winifred Holtby (1936). “South Riding”

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• Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed, while the curtains of the next are brushed by shadow of the dance. A wedding-party returns from church, and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and the sadness of life are the tragi-comedy of Shakespeare. Gladness and sighs brighten and dim the mirror he beholds.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Party, Grief, Sadness

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• I find too there are few Friendships in the World Marriage-Proof; especially when the Person our Friend marries has not a Soul particularly capable of the Tenderness of that Endearment ... we may generally conclude the Marriage of a Friend to be the Funeral of a Friendship.

  Katherine Philips

  Friendship, Soul, World

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• I thought I'd become a funeral director when I wasn't going to be an actor. I thought I would be good at helping some people with the grieving process and with trying to get them to talk about and understand who this person was.

  Angelina Jolie

  Grieving, People, Trying

  "Angelina Jolie: Billy Bob, Knives and Sex". abcnews.go.com. July 11, 2003.

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• Picasso was a delightful, kindly, friendly, simple little man. When I met him he was extremely excited and overjoyed that his mother-in-law had just died, and he was looking forward to the funeral.

  Edith Sitwell

  Mother, Simple, Men

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• A Muslim has five duties towards another Muslim; to return a salutation, visit the sick, follow funerals, accept an invitation and say 'God have mercy on you' when one sneezes.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Sick, Islam, Return

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• Frankly, I'm not much for funerals unless it's absolutely an obligation. I don't feel it serves much of a purpose to go and see my friends just lying there, dead. I try to pay my respects to my friends when they're alive.

  Arnold Palmer

  Lying, Trying, Purpose

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• What we do every St. Patty's day, which is wear green and drink a lot of Guinness. And maybe cry a little bit and laugh, and everyone will have to sing a song. That's how every funeral, christening, and wedding ends up in Ireland. Everyone ends up having to sing a song by the end of it.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Song, Laughing, Green

  "The legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• Although I have always loved the noise of laughter, I really can't fear the coming of quiet. As for funerals, I rather like them. Such nice things are always said about the deceased, I feel sad that they had to miss hearing it all by just a few days.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Laughter, Nice, Missing

  "Obituary". web.archive.org. December 30, 2003.

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• I did become quite well known from 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', and it helped hugely. I wasn't as famous as Hugh Grant, but I certainly began to work.

  Anna Chancellor

  Four, Well Known, Grants

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them...they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.

  John Irving

  Thinking, Hymns, Want

  John Irving (1989). “A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel”, William Morrow & Co

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