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• You know how funerals are not for the dead, they’re for the living? Bachelor parties are not for the groom, they’re for the uncommitted.

  Bill Murray

  Party, Bachelors, Uncommitted

  "Bill Murray Crashes Bachelor Party, Offers Advice To Young Bucks" By Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 27, 2014.

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• When I die, nobody cry at my funeral, in fact let's all have a party; I've lived the life of ten men. I lived all my dreams and more.

  Robbin Crosby

  Dream, Party, Men

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• What I’m saying is I think life is staggering and we’re just used to it. We all are like spoiled children no longer impressed with the gifts we’re given—it’s just another sunset, just another rainstorm moving in over the mountain, just another child being born, just another funeral.

  Donald Miller

  Children, Moving, Sunset

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.58, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Religious, Kind, Should

  "Science Fiction Writer Arthur C. Clarke Dead at Age 90", www.foxnews.com. March 19, 2008.

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• If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Philosophy, Wish, Firsts

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• Thousands of people are being buried and no one attends the funerals,' said one of the soldiers. 'In peacetime it's the other way round: one coffin and a hundred people carrying flowers.

  Vasily Grossman

  Flower, People, Soldier

  Vasily Grossman (2011). “Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.135, Random House

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• When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the other was deal with computers. And then I ended up being a computer programmer in a morgue.

  Patricia Cornwell

  College, Two, Computer

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

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• Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.' That doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday.

  Albert Camus

  Mother, Home, Mean

  Albert Camus (2002). “The Stranger”, Spark Notes

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• I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Smile, Morning, Home

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• He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Thinking

  Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1874). “The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day”, p.107

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• Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Land, Heaven

  Henry Ward Beecher, Augusta Moore (1859). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: A Collection of Memorable Passages from the Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, with a Sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture Room”, p.57

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• The dead don't die. They look on and help.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Death, Looks, Helping

  Letter to J. Middleton Murry, 2 February 1923, in H. T. Moore (ed.) 'Collected Letters of D. H. Lawrence' (1962) vol. 2

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• Life for the majority of the population.
  Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds.
  Culminating in a cheap funeral.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Struggle, Odds, Majority

  Siegfried Sassoon (1983). “Siegfried Sassoon's long journey: selections from the Sherston memoirs”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Life is a sport...drink it up.

  Michael Jordan

  Sports, Life Is, Drink

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• Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it's original and good for their health, but life in the country is not original at all, for anyone who wasn't born in and for the country it shows a lack of taste and is only harmful to their health. The people who go walking in the country walk right into their own funeral in the country and at the very least they lead a grotesque existence which leads them first into idiocy, then into an absurd death.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Country, Thinking, People

  Thomas Bernhard (2010). “The Loser: A Novel”, p.28, Vintage

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• I have heard it said that winter, too, will pass, that spring is a sign that summer is due at last. See, all we have to do is hang on.

  Maya Angelou

  Summer, Spring, Winter

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• I have passed the mountain peak and my soul is soaring in the firmament of Complete and unbounded freedom; I am in comfort, I am in peace.

  Khalil Gibran

  Mountain Peaks, Remembrance, Soul

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us.

  Anna Quindlen

  Grief, Silence, Remains

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.157, Random House

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• We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Gratitude, Passing Away, Delight

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Across the Plains”, p.92, BookRix

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• In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation’s funeral at our expense.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  United States, Doe, Delay

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.536, Random House

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• As I'm lying there at my funeral I would hope to hear somebody say, “Look, he's still moving!

  Peter Costello

  Lying, Moving, Looks

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• Someday I'll wish upon a star And wake up where the clouds Are far behind me Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops that's where you'll find me

  Eva Cassidy

  Stars, Clouds, Wish

  Song: Somewhere over the rainbow

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• Philadelphia fans would boo funerals, an Easter egg hunt, a parade of armless war vets and the Liberty Bell.

  Bo Belinsky

  Easter, War, Eggs

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• I'd been told of all the things you're meant to feel when your father dies. Sudden freedom, growing up, the end of dependence, the step into the sunlight when no one is taller than you and you're in no one's shadow. I know what I felt. Lonely.

  John Mortimer

  Lonely, Growing Up, Father

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• When many people are killed, they should be mourned and lamented. Those who are victorious in war should follow the rites of funerals.

  Laozi

  War, People, Taoism

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