Funeral Quotes - Page 24

• Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.

  Mark Twain

  Religion, World, Uncertain

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.401, Courier Corporation

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• The most important thing I learned [...] was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.

  Gavin Extence

  Silly, Past, People

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• But that wasn´t the first time I ever saw her. I saw her in the hallways at school, and at my mother’s false funeral, and walking the sidewalks in the Abnegation sector. I saw her, but I didn’t see her; no one saw her the way she truly was until she jumped. I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.

  Veronica Roth

  Mother, School, Fire

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• the time to hesitate is through no time to wallowin the mire Try now we can only lose and our love become a funeral pyre

  Jim Morrison

  Trying, Our Love, Loses

  Song: Ligth My Fire!

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• Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.

  Alexander Smith

  Nature, Ninety Nine, Picnics

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.102, tredition

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• Life let us cherish, while yet the taper glows,
  And the fresh flow'ret pluck ere it close;
  Why are we fond of toil and care?
  Why choose the rankling thorn to wear?

  Johann Martin Usteri

  Life, Toil, Care

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• Away with funeral music-set
  The pipe to powerful lips-
  The cup of life's for him that drinks
  And not for him that sips.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Powerful, Cups

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.3687, Delphi Classics

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• Knowledge by suffering entereth,
  And life is perfected by death.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Life, Death, Knowledge

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.231

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• We were at another funeral party. I wasn’t sure who had died this time, but it was a suicide, and upsetting because it was completely out of season. No on killed themselves in summertime. It was rude.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Suicide, Party, Rude

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “The Center of Winter: A Novel”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• This is wine," Ghoolion said solemnly. "Wine is drinkable sunlight. It's the most glorious summer's day imaginable, captured in a bottle. Wine can be a melody in a cut-glass goblet, but it can also be a cacophony in a dirty tumbler, or a rainy autumn night, or a funeral march that scorches your tongue.

  Walter Moers

  Summer, Dirty, Wine

  Walter Moers (2009). “The Alchemaster's Apprentice: A Novel”, p.104, The Overlook Press

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• The funeral is a quiet one, despite the number of mourners present. There are no sobs or flailing handkerchiefs. There is a smattering of color amongst the sea of traditional black. Even the light rain cannot push it down into the realms of despair. It rests instead in a space of thoughtful melancholy.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Rain, Thoughtful, Light

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• Two days after my dad's funeral, my mom went on a mission. I never understood it until then--that sometimes a spy doesn't need a cover so much as she needs a shield.

  Ally Carter

  Broken Heart, Mom, Dad

  Ally Carter (2007). “I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”, Hyperion

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• It doesn't matter how big a ranch you own or how many cows you brand, the size of your funeral is still gonna depend on the weather.

  Harry S. Truman

  Humility, Weather, Cows

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• Bury me smilin' with G's in my pocket, Have a party at my funeral let every rapper rock it Let the hoes that I used to know, from way before Kiss me from my head to my toe, Gimme a paper and pen so I can write about my life of sin, Couple bottles of gin, in case I don't get in.

  Tupac Shakur

  Couple, Party, Writing

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• Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Religious, Unity, Liberty

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• The past is a funeral gone by.

  Edmund Gosse

  Moving, Past, Gone

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• The test of your worldview is not how you act in the good times. The test of your worldview is how you act at the funeral. Having been through literally hundreds if not thousands of funerals: ... It makes a difference what you believe.

  Rick Warren

  God, Believe, Differences

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• And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.

  Tennessee Williams

  Blanche

  Tennessee Williams (2004). “A Streetcar Named Desire”, p.21, New Directions Publishing

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• More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Knowledge, Character

  The Rambler no. 60 (13 Oct. 1750)

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• Welcome to Israel, where chanting “Death to Arabs” is democracy, running over children is equality, and firing on funerals is peace.

  Remi Kanazi

  Death, Running, Peace

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• Most souls attend their funerals and have some feelings about them, but it's such an individual event. Some souls don't care what happens to their physical bodies. They see the funeral as a ritual for the living so they don't always attend.

  Echo Bodine

  Soul, Feelings, Events

  Echo Bodine (1999). “Echoes of the Soul: The Soul's Journey Beyond the Light — Through Life, Death, and Life After Death”, p.142, New World Library

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• Men had taken greater blows: that was what made a man a man. For did they not say that a man is like a funeral ram which must take whatever beating comes to it without opening its mouth; that the silent tremor of pain down its body alone must tell of its suffering?

  Chinua Achebe

  Pain, Men, Grieving

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• [I]n contrast to the common belief that they are the world's greatest cynics, the best journalists are the world's great idealists. They have experienced firsthand the great soothing balance of human existence. For every disgrace there is triumph, for every wrong there is a moment of justice, for every funeral a wedding, for every obituary a birth announcement.

  Anna Quindlen

  Justice, Balance, World

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• Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is.

  Joyce Cary

  Grief, Earth, Unnecessary

  Joyce Cary (1985). “Except the Lord”, p.39, New Directions Publishing

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• People are scared to make something that doesn't look like another film that made a lot of money. It means we get 'Four Weddings And A Funeral' made again and again.

  Billy Boyd

  Mean, People, Looks

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