Funeral Quotes - Page 26

• It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because unless you do that, the loved one dies for you again and again.

  Ann-Marie MacDonald

  Fire, Views, Important

  Ann-Marie MacDonald (2011). “Fall On Your Knees”, p.487, Simon and Schuster

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• Science advances one funeral at a time.

  Max Planck

  Science, Mathematics, Universe

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• My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, and what have you. Because if they didn't, then the book would be hidden inside some pocket or other and as soon as whatever it was got under way I'd be found in a corner. That was who I was...that was what I did. I was the kid with the book.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Kids, Parent

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  At my funeral, I want Meryl Streep crying in five different accents.

  Joan Rivers

  Comedian, Age, Different

  Joan Rivers (2012). “I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me”, p.44, Penguin

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• The Bible is not a script for a funeral service, but it is the record of God always bringing life where we expected to find death. Everywhere it is the story of resurrection.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Stories, Records, Scripts

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• he must deny his right to himself, and he must realize who Jesus Christ is before he will bring himself to do it. Beware of refusing to go to the funeral of your own independence

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Independence, Realizing

  Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

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• Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

  Herman Melville

  Depression, Strong, Hands

  Herman Melville (2002). “Moby-Dick: A Picture Voyage : an Abridged and Illustrated Edition of the Original Classic”, p.13, Spinner Publications

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• People dress up for funerals. Why not dress up to celebrate that you’re alive?

  Gay Talese

  People, Dresses, Why Not

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• Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never did tree or grass wave or rustle so ominously. Never did bough creak so mysteriously, and never did the far-away howling of dogs send such a woeful presage through the night.

  Bram Stoker

  Dog, Night, White

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula”, p.181, Zillmann Publishing

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• Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Death, Important, Dying

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• I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

  Emma Thompson

  Witty, Disease And Death, People

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• I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.

  Keith Richards

  Mean, Doctors, Six Months

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• The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal." "It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Nothing is dead; men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals... and there they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some strange new disguise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Sight, Soul

  "In the Beauty of the Lilies: A Love Story That Opens Doors to Spiritual Values". Book by Gerald O. Doyle (p. 56), 2002.

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• We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: "Too bad we can't get together more often".

  Bernard Berenson

  Together, Get Together

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• If any of you cry at my funeral I'll never speak to you again.

  Stan Laurel

  Funny, Cry, Speak

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The wind outside nested in each tree, prowled the sidewalks in invisible treads like unseen cats. Tom Skelton shivered. Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows' Eve. Everything seemed cut from soft black velvet or gold or orange velvet. Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like the plumes of funeral parades. From kitchen windows drifted two pumpkin smells: gourds being cut, pies being baked.

  Ray Bradbury

  Cat, Cutting, Night

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• How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

  Jodi Picoult

  Death, Heart, Loss

  Jodi Picoult (1996). “Mercy”, p.215, Penguin

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• I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.

  Markus Zusak

  Life, Mean, Inspire

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• Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

  Voltaire

  Nature, Animal, Men

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• I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season was over and he had time for a nice funeral.

  Don Shula

  Sports, Nice, Nfl

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• Life is lived on its ownother's shoulders are used only at the time of funeral.

  Bhagat Singh

  Life Is, Used, Shoulders

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• Dear America, I suppose we should introduce ourselves: We're South Louisiana...You probably already know that we talk funny and listen to strange music and eat things you'd probably hire an exterminator to get out of your yard. We dance even if there's no radio. We drink at funerals. We talk too much and laugh too loud and live too large and, frankly, we're suspicious of others who don't.

  Chris Rose

  Funny, Humorous, Usa

  "1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina". Book by Chris Rose, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2005.

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• He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides

  Gustave Flaubert

  Dream, Tombs

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• But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they're good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and growling at interruptions, ignoring weddings and funerals, and making enemies out of friends. I still bear the scars of Middlemarch.

  Vikram Seth

  Hate, Book, Long

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• Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.

  J. K. Rowling

  Song, Singing, Different

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