Funeral Quotes - Page 17

• She pictured herself running from a hoard of ravenous zombies on a hot day eventually collapsing from heatstroke and getting devoured. Then she imagined Hal giving a rousing eulogy at her funeral explaining how Kendra's death was a beautiful sacrifice allowing the noble zombies to live on delighting future generations by mindlessly trying to eat them. With her luck it could totally happen.

  Brandon Mull

  Beautiful, Running, Sacrifice

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• A eugoogoolizer...one who speaks at funerals...Or did you think I was too stupid to know what a eugoogooly was?

  Ben Stiller

  Stupid, Thinking, Speak

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• Always remember this: If you don't attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.

  H. L. Mencken

  Age, Remember, Ifs

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• I have never received full credit from the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army], because the men are very sexist and feel that I'm acting out of place, bringing too much attention to myself - but for the funeral of our leader John Garang, they had me write the poem "Chol Apieth" to eulogize him, and that was their way of acknowledging my contributions.

  Kola Boof

  Writing, Army, Men

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• I thought I'd become a funeral director when I wasn't going to be an actor. I thought I would be good at helping some people with the grieving process and with trying to get them to talk about and understand who this person was.

  Angelina Jolie

  Grieving, People, Trying

  "Angelina Jolie: Billy Bob, Knives and Sex". abcnews.go.com. July 11, 2003.

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• It's not what I'd want for at my funeral. When I die, I just want them to plant me somewhere warm. And then when the pretty women walk over my grave I would grab their ankles, like in that movie.

  Neil Gaiman

  Pretty Woman, Ankles, Want

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• Picasso was a delightful, kindly, friendly, simple little man. When I met him he was extremely excited and overjoyed that his mother-in-law had just died, and he was looking forward to the funeral.

  Edith Sitwell

  Mother, Simple, Men

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• Frankly, I'm not much for funerals unless it's absolutely an obligation. I don't feel it serves much of a purpose to go and see my friends just lying there, dead. I try to pay my respects to my friends when they're alive.

  Arnold Palmer

  Lying, Trying, Purpose

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• Every victory accomplished with weapons is a funeral that should be mourned.

  Wayne Dyer

  Victory, Weapons, Should

  Dr Wayne W Dyer (2009). “Change Your Thoughts-Change Your Life (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.190, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Thinking, Matter, Add

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• I think weddings are sadder than funerals, because they remind you of your own wedding. You can't be reminded of your own funeral because it hasn't happened. But weddings always make me cry.

  Brendan Behan

  Thinking, Funny Marriage, Cry

  Brendan Behan (2014). “Behan Complete Plays”, p.252, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• There was just no good way for a dead son to greet his mother almost two weeks after his funeral.

  Rachel Vincent

  Mother, Son, Two

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Reaper”, p.45, Harlequin

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• Standing Here My entire world far beneath my feet, I should be filled with pride. Instead, I feel overwhelmed by a sense of defeat. Suddenly it comes to me, toes tempted to test the ledge, that there is a way out of this. Clam surety flows through my veins, and as I turn to wave good-bye, I wonder if it will hurt or if a single person will cry at my funeral. I take a deep breath, a final taste of sweet mountain air. I conjure Leona, Emily. Move my feet closer. Closer There's Grandma One, Grandma Two, and their spouses, waiting for me. I see Dad. Cara. Mommy. I screw up my courage, step over

  Ellen Hopkins

  Sweet, Hurt, Dad

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• Everybody goes to the funeral, but everybody laughs when it's funny. While entertainment is happening, that's just what it is, entertainment - until it crosses over into a whole 'nother situation. And now, me maturing, I look back at a lot of things, pushing forward, some things won't get my attention. Some things don't deserve my energy. I won't put forth so much on things, you got to focus on what's the matter at hand. That's to put out timeless music, and great albums.

  Lloyd Banks

  Laughing, Focus, Energy

  Source: www.ballerstatus.com

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• Growing up, there were a lot of funerals that I attended, and the adults at the funerals went out of their way to make sure that I wasn't traumatized or overly depressed by them. So death is always a celebration of life for me, and it's also hugely dramatic.

  Bryan Fuller

  Growing Up, Adults, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's interesting - you had [George] Osborne crying at [Margaret Tatcher] funeral. She would have been the first person, she would have read these tears as being as fake as the smiles of his predecessors when they knifed her in the back.

  Irvine Welsh

  Interesting, Fake, Tears

  Source: thequietus.com

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• In the First World War, people would be receiving letters from loved ones who had been dead for weeks, and they would not know until that black-bordered telegram arrived. I remember, of course, when it was letters only, or the telephone, and you did not make expensive long-distance calls unless it was, "Come home to the funeral," or the like.

  Margaret Atwood

  War, Distance, Home

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Society makes suicide so romantic. I mean, you watch these TV movies about teen suicide and you want to jump in front of a bus. Because your biggest fantasy is your own funeral. No one will admit to it, but it's true.

  Winona Ryder

  Suicide, Mean, Watches

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wrote "Miner's Prayer" after [grandfather] died. I'd gone back to his funeral, and he died in 1979. And I came back to California, and I think a couple of weeks after that funeral wrote that song thinking about him, his life.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Song, Prayer, Couple

  Source: www.npr.org

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• One of my earliest memories was President [J.F.] Kennedy's funeral. I actually remember sitting on the floor in the living room looking at our black-and-white television and watching the caisson roll by and hearing the clip-clop of the horses. It's actually one of my earliest memories.

  Mike Pence

  Horse, Memories, Black And White

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• Some of the funniest moments I've had have been like, at a funeral. Somebody says something and everyone's laughing because you have so much pain, but you need that moment of levity.

  Gloria Calderon Kellett

  Pain, Laughing, Needs

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• Maybe lurking in my unconscious was the idea that when someone's collected poems are published it means that the poet is dead. I found myself looking at my work as if I were at my own funeral.

  Ron Padgett

  Mean, Poet, Unconscious

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• One of my favorite episodes in West Wing was the homeless man that died and they found, in the overcoat he was wearing, a card of the speechwriter, Toby. He had given that coat to the Goodwill and this guy had ended up wearing it, died in it and Toby went to his funeral. He turned out to be a Korean war veteran. It was our first Christmas episode and that was a true story - a member of the staff had done exactly that. So many of these stories were far better than any fiction.

  Martin Sheen

  War, Men, Guy

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• I want to die consciously, without fear, and without anger. Three things. I see my friends dying with fear and anger and it's terrible. My grandmother kept her clothes ready for 40 years for her funeral. She lived to 103! But she kept the clothes in a cupboard. As the styles changed, she changed the clothes! I think if I start now with my funeral, it's good.

  Marina Abramovic

  Grandmother, Thinking, Style

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I first came on the scene, I don't think people knew what to make of the way I dress, my aesthetic and how that ties into my music. It took a lot of explaining. You don't really see females in country music dressed in all black wearing funeral garb with netting on their face. I have a bit of a gothic sense to me in a lot of ways, with a bit of outlaw country, rockabilly and blues. My subject matter is off the cuff a little bit.

  Lindi Ortega

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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