When words are most empty, tears are most apt.
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
The passing of the years awakens in our hearts the cry for permanence.
There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
You broke me bodily. The heart ain't the half of it, And I'll never learn to laugh at it In my good natured way. In fact, I'm laughing less in general, But I learned a lot at my own funeral. And I knew you'd be the death of me, So I guess that's the price I pay.
Emily suffers no more from pain or weakness now. She will never suffer more in this world. She is gone after a hard, short conflict...Yes there is no Emily in time or on earth now. Yesterday we put her poor, wasted, mortal frame quietly under the chancel pavement. We are very calm at present. Why shoud we be otherwise? The anguish of seeing her suffer is over; the spectacle of the pains of death is gone by; the funeral day is past. We feel she is at peace. No need now to trouble for the hard frost and the keen wind. Emily does not feel them.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.
The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.
Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!
My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.
I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music, have children to my music and play my music at their funerals.
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.
I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every rescuer who died in honor. We will remember every family that lives in grief. We will remember the fire and ash, the last phone calls, the funerals of the children.
Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been.
Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
Funerals are all abstract ceremony.
The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting.
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