Funeral Quotes - Page 13

• The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail.

  Henry Ford

  Men, Details, He Man

  Henry Ford, Rose Wilder Lane, Samuel Crowther “The Story of Henry Ford - An American Dream Cone True”, Lulu.com

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• A woman who feels ugly can go to the best party and have a terrible time, but a woman who likes the way she looks can go to a funeral and have a marvellous time.

  Britney Spears

  Party, Likes, Looks

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• Whenever humans come together for any reason, music is there: weddings, funerals, graduation from college, men marching off to war, stadium sporting events, a night on the town, prayer, a romantic dinner, mothers rocking their infants to sleep ... music is a part of the fabric of everyday life.

  Daniel Levitin

  Mother, Prayer, War

  Daniel J. Levitin (2011). “This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession”, p.6, Atlantic Books Ltd

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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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• I think the saddest moments in life have humor in them. I have a memory of coming home from a funeral with my family in the back of a limousine and someone cracking a joke and us just hysterically belly laughing. It's how we always dealt with tragedy in our lives and I think it's such a healthy way to deal with sadness.

  Zach Braff

  Memories, Home, Sadness

  "'Scrubs' star writes what he knows" by Stephanie Snipes, www.cnn.com. August 16, 2004.

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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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• Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Sorrow, Battle

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• Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Death, Flames, Hatred

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• When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.

  Xavier Rudd

  Powerful, Mean, Play

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• When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis. I went round the night my mother was lying in the kitchen, and I organised everything, from the undertaker to the funeral... I looked after everybody, I sorted it all out and Ive done so ever since.

  Stuart Rose

  Mother, Father, Lying

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• The earth covered with a sable pall as for the burial of yesterday; the clumps of dark trees, its giant plumes of funeral feathers, waving sadly to and fro: all hushed, all noiseless, and in deep repose, save the swift clouds that skim across the moon, and the cautious wind, as, creeping after them upon the ground, it stops to listen, and goes rustling on, and stops again, and follows, like a savage on the trail.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Dark, Moon

  Charles Dickens (1844). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.186, Chapman and Hall

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• I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish to pay a proper respect to the dead, unless their characters have been bad, and as I would wish to have the funeral of my own near relations or of myself well attended.

  James Boswell

  Death, Character, Wish

  James Boswell (2001). “Boswell's Edinburgh Journals 1767-1786”, Mercat Press Books

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• Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be
  counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites
  are paid.

  Ovid

  Death, Men, Lasts

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• A psychiatrist once told me early in treatment, "Stop trying to make me like you," and what a sobering and welcome smack in the face that statement was. Yet somehow, every day of my life is still a campaign for popularity, or better yet, a crowded funeral.

  John Waters

  Trying, Campaigns, Faces

  John Waters (2010). “Role Models”, p.30, Macmillan

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• When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral.

  Noah Baumbach

  Kids, My Own

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Had he been willing to live a hypocrite, he would have been respectable, he at least could have died surrounded by other hypocrites, and at his death there would have been an imposing funeral, with miles of carriages, filled with hypocrites, and above his hypocritical dust there would have been a hypocritical monument covered with lies.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Lying, Hypocrite, Dust

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.806, Library of Alexandria

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• I have met people that said when their friend was dying, they made them promise that their funeral would be a party without people sitting in silence and in sadness. They want to celebrate their life and the life they lived and I try to adhere to that more.

  Andrew W.K.

  Party, Sadness, People

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• In every Magical, or similar system, it is invariably the first condition which the Aspirant must fulfill: he must once and for all and for ever put his family outside his magical circle.Even the Gospels insist clearly and weightily on this.Christ himself (i.e. whoever is meant by this name in this passage) callously disowns his mother and his brethren (Luke VIII, 19). And he repeatedly makes discipleship contingent on the total renunciation of all family ties. He would not even allow a man to attend his father's funeral!Is the magical tradition less rigid?Not on your life!

  Aleister Crowley

  Mother, Father, Men

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• When I
  die
  I'm sure
  I will have a
  Big Funeral

  Mari Evans

  Bigs, Dies

  Mari Evans (2007). “Continuum: New and Selected Poems”

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• Funerals prove that someone is really gone.

  Mason Cooley

  Gone, Prove

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• Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out ofthe window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Death, Men, Sound

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.272, Harvard University Press

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• You know all my life I've hated funerals. The fuss and bother never brings anybody back. It just spoils remembering them as they really are. And when I see people actually facing it that way, I have to act like a sap.

  Jules Furthman

  Death, People, Sap

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