Funeral Quotes - Page 19

• I would prefer not to throw myself on a funeral pyre. Please come back to me.

  Eloisa James

  Come Back To Me, Please

  Eloisa James (2011). “A Kiss At Midnight: Number 1 in series”, p.209, Hachette UK

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• Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in fact, is a sort of homage to the departed, the one as well as the other is a service to dead men. Moreover, demons dwell in the images of the dead. ... this sort of exhibition has passed from honors of the dead to honors of the living; I mean, to quaestorships [financial overseers]and magistractes, to priestly offices of different kinds. Yet, since idolatry still cleaves to the dignity's name, whatever is done in its name partakes of its impurity.

  Tertullian

  Religious, Mean, Sacrifice

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• Weapons are the tools of violence;all decent men detest them.Weapons are the tools of fear;a decent man will avoid themexcept in the direst necessityand, if compelled, will use themonly with the utmost restraint.Peace is his highest value.If the peace has been shattered,how can he be content?His enemies are not demons,but human beings like himself.He doesn't wish them personal harm.Nor does he rejoice in victory.How could he rejoice in victoryand delight in the slaughter of men?He enters a battle gravely,with sorrow and with great compassion,as if he were attending a funeral

  Laozi

  Peace, Compassion, Men

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• Lord Randolph Churchill was the chief mourner at his own protracted funeral.

  Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

  Lord, Chiefs

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• Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea Partiers have only the high volume setting on their amplifiers, just like Palin. They're like a couple having a fight at a funeral; politely sotto voce, then suddenly bursting out fortissimo with their plaints and accusations.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Running, Couple, Party

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• My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed, not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures. It will be, without the exception of Noah's Ark, the most remarkable thing of its kind ever seen.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Aquariums, White

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• Sometimes the truth don't rhyme, sometime the lies get millions of views, funerals for little girls is that appealing to you?

  Chance the Rapper

  Girl, Lying, Views

  Song: Acid Rain, Album: Acid Rap, 2013

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• A cigarette is a roll of paper, tobacco, and drugs, with a small fire on one end and a large fool at the other. Some of its chief benefits are cancer of the lips and stomach, softening of the brain, funeral procesions, and families shrouded in gloom and grief. Although a great many people know this, they still smoke in order to appear sophisticated.

  Ann Landers

  Cancer, Grief, Fire

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• A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Men, Bells

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.120

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• Every morning I walk by a funeral home, and that's my productivity hack for how to make sure your to-do list is properly prioritized.

  Anil Dash

  Morning, Home, Lists

  Twitter post from Oct 22, 2013

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• The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors, painters, and artists in allied fields. The award for the best painting went to the canvas of an Illinois artist. It was described as "a macabre, detailed work showing a closed door bearing a funeral wreath." Equally striking was the work's title: "That which I should have done, I did not do."

  James Keller

  Time, Art, Work

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• I'll regularly just burst out into laughter at funerals, at the expense of the dead. What's the difference between a dead person and Thom Yorke? One is talented and the other is dead. **** you grandma

  Thom Yorke

  Laughter, Grandma, Differences

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• Think of the glory. Think of your reputation. Think how great it'll look on your next resume." On my cenotaph, you mean. Nobody will be able to collect enough of my scattered atoms to bury. You going to cover my funeral expenses, son?" Splendidly. Banners, dancing girls, and enough beer to float your coffin to Valhalla." - Miles coaxing Ky Tung to agree to an almost suicidal mission

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Girl, Suicidal, Mean

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1990). “Vorkosigan's Game”

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• It's my policy not to review funerals.

  A.M. Homes

  Reviews, Policy

  A.M. Homes (2012). “May We Be Forgiven”, p.54, Granta Books

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• A president can be unpopular for good reasons. You know, I'm not always on the side that the people are right, for God's sake. But, you know, he's not popular when he goes overseas. He couldn't go to Rosa Parks' funeral.

  Bill Maher

  People, President, Sake

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• It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their undoubted flair for funeral orations.

  Orson Welles

  Exercise, Night, Would Be

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• Lessee...he'd gone off after the funeral and gotten drunk. No, not drunk, another word, ended with "er." Drunker. that was it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Drunk, Gone

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• Am I solemn? I had an idea I was grinning from ear to ear." "You look as if you were taking me to a prayer-meeting or a funeral. If that's a grin your ears are very near together." "Should you like me to dance a hornpipe on the deck?" "Pray do, and I'll carry round your hat. It'll pay the expenses of our journey.

  Henry James

  Prayer, Journey, Ideas

  Todd K. Bender, Henry James (1987). “A concordance to Henry James's Daisy Miller”, Scholarly Title

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• In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

  Albert Camus

  Mother, Men, Our Society

  "What is it about Albert Camus' The Outsider that makes it such an enduring favourite with men?" by Marcel Berlins, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2006.

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• Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control.

  Jessica Mitford

  Industry

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• Nice day for a funeral.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Nice, Nice Day

  Anthony Horowitz (2004). “The Falcon's Malteser”, p.46, Penguin

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• I worry that friends will slowly become professional pallbearers, waiting for each death, of their lovers, friends and neighbors, and polishing their funeral speeches; perfecting their rituals of death rather than a relatively simple ritual of life such as screaming in the streets.

  David Wojnarowicz

  Simple, Worry, Waiting

  David Wojnarowicz (2017). “Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration”, p.113, Canongate Books

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• What am I most ashamed of in my life? Not keeping my promise to my sister and being too scared of America to attend her funeral.

  Josephine Baker

  America, Promise, Scared

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• The kings of terrors, the last enemy, will never be able to breach the pearly gates and disturb the bliss of heaven! No more deathbed vigils or funerals. The hearse will have made its last journey.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Kings, Journey, Heaven

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• Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true

  Horace

  Grief, Littles

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.448, Delphi Classics

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