Funeral Quotes - Page 8

• My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they'll leave in people's hearts. They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.

  Abraham Verghese

  Regret, Heart, Mean

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.255, Random House India

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I could picture life—school and everything else—continuing on without me. But I could not picture my funeral. Not at all. Mostly because I couldn’t imagine who would attend or what they would say.

  Jay Asher

  School, Continuing On, Imagine

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.127, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Friends: not one. Just a few acquaintances who imagine they feel something for me and who might be sorry if a train ran over me and the funeral was on a rainy day.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Sorry, Rainy Day, Might

  9 Copy quote

• You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live.

  Neil Gaiman

  Farewell, Blow, Grieving

  "Sandman Special: The Song of Orpheus". Comic book by Neil Gaiman, 1991.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• So what does Tod look like? Whitewashed skeleton skulking around in a black cape and hood? Carrying a scythe? 'Cause I'm thinking that would cause mass panic in the hospital." ..... "Do you chase after a funeral processions in a long, dirty dress, hair trailing behind you in the wind? I shot him a mock frown. "Have you been following me again?

  Rachel Vincent

  Dirty, Thinking, Hair

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “Soul Screamers Volume One: My Soul to Lose\My Soul to Take\My Soul to Save”, p.184, Harlequin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The funeral was over, at last I could cry. Except that I couldn't. My tears, kept in too long, had fossilized. They would have to stay in forever now.

  Diane Setterfield

  Long, Forever, Tears

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.273, Simon and Schuster

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• Do you really want to know why you lost?” I asked. “Do you really have an answer?” he countered. “You need to get off your horse and run with your men. You don’t have the stamina for a long fight. And find a lighter sword.” “But it was my uncle’s.” “You’re not your uncle.” “But I’m the King, and this is the King’s sword,” Cahil said. His brows creased together. He seemed confused. “So wear it to your coronation,” I said. “If you use it in battle, you’ll be wearing it to your funeral,” I said.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Running, Horse, Uncles

  9 Copy quote

• What about Isabelle?" Simon asked. "Where is she?" The humor, such as it was, left Jace's expression. "She won't come out of her room," he said. "She thinks that what happened to Max was her fault. She won't even come to the funeral." "Have you tried talking to her?" "No," Jace said, "we've been punching her repeatedly in the face instead. Why, do you think that won't work?" "Just thought I'd ask." Simon's tone was mild.

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, Expression, Talking

  52 Copy quote

• 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

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

  Publilius Syrus

  Life, Men, Perspective

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 1,

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• To pay for my father's funeral I borrowed money from people he already owed money to. One called him a nobody. No, I said, he was a failure. You can't remember a nobody's name, that's why they're called nobodies. Failures are unforgettable.

  Philip Schultz

  Father, Names, People

  Philip Schultz (2009). “Failure”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Jazz hadn't given her many details of exactly what life in the Dent house had been like, but he'd told her enough that she knew it wasn't hearts and flowers. Well, except for the occasional heart cut from a chest. And the kind of flowers you send to funerals.

  Barry Lyga

  Flower, Heart, Cutting

  4 Copy quote

• ...an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.

  Arthur Miller

  Heart, March, Everlasting

  Arthur Miller (2015). “The Crucible”, p.52, Bloomsbury Publishing

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• At my age, I regard each funeral I attend as a personal triumph, because I was not the guest of honor.

  Judith McNaught

  Honor, Age, Triumph

  Judith McNaught (2016). “Paradise”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• We're living in world, stars and dust Between heaven 'n all that surrounds us We're travellers here, spirits passing through And the love we give, is all that will endure Just like a rose after the rain Something beautiful remains Tears will leave no stains Time will ease the pain For every life that fades Something beautiful remains

  Tina Turner

  Beautiful, Stars, Pain

  65 Copy quote

• I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control.

  M.I.A.

  Thinking, Wish, The End Of The Day

  6 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source