Funeral Quotes - Page 25

• A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't even be there.

  John Steinbeck

  Festivals, Kind, Stage

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• Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is.

  Joyce Cary

  Grief, Earth, Unnecessary

  Joyce Cary (1985). “Except the Lord”, p.39, New Directions Publishing

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• The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody who comes in out of the blue and says the truth. Everything else is table manners.

  Philip Roth

  Blue, Waiting, Tables

  Philip Roth, Ross Miller (2008). “Novels & other narratives, 1986-1991”

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• I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

  Robert Tappan Morris

  Death, Hate, Men

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• People are scared to make something that doesn't look like another film that made a lot of money. It means we get 'Four Weddings And A Funeral' made again and again.

  Billy Boyd

  Mean, People, Looks

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• As a pastor, you get invited into the most poignant moments of people's lives. Whether it's a wedding or a funeral or a hospital visit, you get invited into the center of the event, whether or not you know the people.

  Rob Bell

  Visits You, People, Events

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• I wanted to be at my sister's funeral, but my family has always had a complicated dynamic.

  Nick Carter

  Complicated, My Family, My Sister

  "Nick Carter Blames Family's "Complicated Dynamic" for Missing Sister Leslie Carter's Funeral" by Gina Serpe, www.eonline.com. February 6, 2012.

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• Nine Years Under is a sparkling debut--- brimming with love and bursting with life. Booker's Baltimore is equal parts The Wire and The Cosby show. She doesn't shrink from the realities of life in an inner city funeral home, but she is also a loving witness, documenting the big hearted community that takes care of its own. Told with compassion, wit, and good old fashioned story telling, Sheri Booker gives us unforgettable characters who will make you laugh right up until they break your heart.

  Tayari Jones

  Character, Home, Heart

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• I see people driving cars, winding down the streets. I don't know where these people think they're going. They're going to the funeral home; that's about it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Home, Thinking, Car

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• ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Snakes, Habit

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.12, University of Georgia Press

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• A tell-all book by David Axelrod, one of President Obama's former strategists, reveals that Obama chose Joe Biden as his VP because of his energy and enthusiasm. You know, the qualities you look for in someone whose main job is traveling to state funerals.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Jobs, Book, President

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• [I]n contrast to the common belief that they are the world's greatest cynics, the best journalists are the world's great idealists. They have experienced firsthand the great soothing balance of human existence. For every disgrace there is triumph, for every wrong there is a moment of justice, for every funeral a wedding, for every obituary a birth announcement.

  Anna Quindlen

  Justice, Balance, World

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• The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale: to an observer in the Andromeda nebula, the sign of our extinction would be no more than a match flaring for a second in the heavens: and if that match does blaze in the darkness there will be none to mourn a race that used a power that could have lit a beacon in the stars to light its funeral pyre. The choice is ours.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Stars, Light, Race

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• I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• Having taught economics courses at private vocational schools and universities, I have always had a problem with GNP as a yardstick of prosperity. GNP is improved by increases in questionable activities such as consumption of cigarettes and the production of weapons. Moreover, a substantial increase in car accidents will favorably affect GNP because more funerals, hospital visits, car repairs, and new car purchases will result.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Business, School, Car

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• If you love helping people, and you love trying to bring comfort and peace to their life at a very, very difficult time, youre going to have to look pretty hard to find a profession that gives you more opportunities than the funeral business.

  Steve Southerland

  Opportunity, People, Giving

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• a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral.

  Barbara Holland

  Mother, Husband, Father

  Barbara Holland (1996). “One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone”

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• I want Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D played at my funeral. If it isn't I shall jolly well want to know why.

  Sybil Thorndike

  Want, Wells, Jolly

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• When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.

  Walt Disney

  People, Want, Alive

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• You can spend your whole life trying to be popular, but at the end of the day, the size of the crowd at your funeral will be largely dictated by the weather.

  Frank Skinner

  Life, Weather, The End Of The Day

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• Most souls attend their funerals and have some feelings about them, but it's such an individual event. Some souls don't care what happens to their physical bodies. They see the funeral as a ritual for the living so they don't always attend.

  Echo Bodine

  Soul, Feelings, Events

  Echo Bodine (1999). “Echoes of the Soul: The Soul's Journey Beyond the Light — Through Life, Death, and Life After Death”, p.142, New World Library

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• All things that we ordained festival
  Turn from their office to black funeral--
  Our instruments to melancholy bells,
  Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast;
  Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change;
  Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse;
  And all things change them to the contrary.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Cheer, Flower

  William Shakespeare (1871). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.247

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• NBC announced that during the summer Olympics they will set a new record by airing over 1200 hours of coverage. Which is amazing because that's 10 hours longer than the coverage of Reagan's funeral.

  Conan O'Brien

  Summer, Nbc, Records

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• Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?
  For these red lips, with all their mournful pride,
  Mournful that no new wonder may betide,
  Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam,
  And Usna's children died.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Dream, Children

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.28, Wordsworth Editions

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• I ask a wreathwhich will not crush my head.
  And there is no hurry about it;
  I shall have, doubtless, a boom after my funeral,
  Seeing that long standing increases all things
  regardless of quality.

  Ezra Pound

  Crush, Death, Long

  Ezra Pound (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)”, p.588, Delphi Classics

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