Funeral Quotes - Page 18

• I thought that it's so sad there are people who live their entire lives lonely. They die and no one goes to their funeral. I thought about how sad that was and how so many people out there have that path. I know this sounds weird, but if I could go take their bones back to my house and appreciate them for what they are, it would be my way of taking that loneliness away.

  Lindi Ortega

  Lonely, Loneliness, People

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• I got so many emails and text messages, my phone blew up because it couldn't handle everybody. It's like almost being at your own funeral because of the way the headline read.

  Marcus Miller

  Text Message

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'd been basically anchored in New York for three years, but I fled to L.A. after the funeral and decided that I had to start a movie immediately. It was the only way to avoid becoming overwhelmed by depression. And that meant financing the film myself because there is no such thing as "immediately" in movies that one writes.

  James Toback

  Writing, Overwhelmed, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't like my parents; I never will. I didn't cry at either of their funerals. I haven't missed them for five seconds. I didn't - you know, our characters were so at odds with one another right from the beginning. But I do understand them now as human beings, with the understanding of an adult.

  David Small

  Character, Parent, Understanding

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We all live in a world where we can go to a funeral in the morning and go to a wedding in the evening and we survive it. It's the way the world is built, especially when you look at the various people surrounding the Mediterranean way of life.

  Eran Riklis

  Morning, People, World

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Each time a Palestinian or an Israeli dies, it is terrible. But they have the right to have a funeral, to be buried, to have a place in the memory of the survivors. And then you have these other places - Darfur, Rwanda, even Colombia - where the dead have no faces and literally cannot be counted. Theirs are minuscule lives moving toward imperceptible deaths. For me, it is the essence of tragedy.

  Bernard-Henri Levy

  Memories, Moving, Tragedy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I came home [after funerals] and I thought if I go back to California, where I had a small house, I don't think I'll ever come east again. So I decided to stay and go through the halls and stairways, talk to Gilda Radner, holler, express some of my anger and make sure there were no ghosts in the hallways that I should ever be afraid of.And then I found out - it sounds strange, but I found out she had left me the house. We never talked about her dying and what she was going to leave me or I would ever leave her. We just didn't talk about those things.

  Gene Wilder

  Home, Thinking, California

  Source: keranews.org

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• There wasn't a funeral per se. I buried [Gilda Radner] 3 miles from her house that she had bought just shortly before we met. It was an old house, old colonial house, 1734. And there were just a few friends at the funeral, a nonsectarian cemetery. And an old friend of hers from junior high school or high school was the rabbi in town, and he performed the service.

  Gene Wilder

  School, House, Old Friends

  Source: keranews.org

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• I was terrified of funerals.

  Mary Downing Hahn

  Terrified

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The archiving industry, much like the funeral industry and the wedding industry, these industries can be very exploitative.

  Ian MacKaye

  Industry

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Then I asked her if she wanted to to the funeral, and my God, the look on her face. You'd think I'd asked her to drown the neighbor's cat." Admittedly, drowning the neighbor's cat didn't really clue me in as much as I would've liked. "So, she was angry?" He blinked back to me and stared. Like a long time.

  Darynda Jones

  Cat, Thinking, Long

  Darynda Jones (2011). “Second Grave on the Left”, p.18, St. Martin's Press

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• Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Death, Prayer

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma”

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• The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.

  Seneca the Younger

  Best Friend, Prayer, Inspirational Life

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• Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking, without the need to look back. No shock, no drama, just the lifting of a plank or two in a simple wooden gate in a clearing. Neither pain, nor floods of light, nor great voices, but just the silent crossing of a meadow.

  Mark Helprin

  Death, Prayer, Pain

  Mark Helprin (1991). “A Soldier of the Great War”, Harcourt

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• The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event.

  J. B. Priestley

  Death, Prayer, People

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• In death a hero, as in life a friend!

  Alexander Pope

  Death, Hero, Dying

  Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1839). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In 1 volume”, p.321

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• Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.

  Alexander Pope

  Years, Age, Clear

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.168

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• Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.

  Amelia Josephine Burr

  Life, Motivational, Death

  Amelia Josephine Burr, “A Song Of LIVIng”

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• Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had much better be concealed; namely, that their vanity has survived themselves.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Vanity, World, Pompous

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.233

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• I think theres just this mystique of writing a book that appeals to people. A person has to really check their motives and say, Am I really being called by God to do this? Or is this just something that would look neat in my funeral? I dont mean to be harsh but I think a person really needs to, so they wont be disappointed.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts - a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Marine, Army

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.198, Graphic Arts Books

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• My wife made me watch this documentary about the Iraq War, and there was a really powerful moment where they followed some civilian whose family had been killed. This was 5 or 10 minutes of this woman talking, and it was extremely arresting. You realize how you never hear from the person on the receiving end of a war without a reporter stepping in to compartmentalize the story. Usually they're just a few shots at the end of a news report, wailing and screaming at a funeral.

  Charlie Brooker

  Powerful, War, Talking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Littles, Woods, Privilege

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits”, p.70, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Death, Suicide, Grief

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.92, University of Georgia Press

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• We both laugh. And it feels good. A release. Like laughing at a funeral. Maybe inappropriate, but definitely needed.

  Jay Asher

  Laughing, Feel Good, Inappropriate

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.236, Penguin

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