Funeral Quotes - Page 9

• I have prayed with the families and wept at the funerals of Hoosiers who did not shrink from 9-11 but grew into heroes whose names will forever be engraved in the heart of a grateful nation.

  Mike Pence

  Hero, Grateful, Heart

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to devise a shape, a plan. There is dignity in this. Your whole life is a plot, a scheme, a diagram. It is a failed scheme but that's not the point. To plot is to affirm life, to seek shape and control. Even after death, most particularly after death, the search continues. Burial rites are an attempt to complete the scheme, in ritual. Picture a state funeral, Jack. It is all precision, detail, order, design. The nation holds its breath. - (WN 292)

  Don DeLillo

  Order, Design, Trying

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• ...an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.

  Arthur Miller

  Heart, March, Everlasting

  Arthur Miller (2015). “The Crucible”, p.52, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• What you need is one black dress I call Plan B. It doesn't have to be fabulous, it just looks good, covers up the problems and is neutral enough for dinner, business, a date, a funeral. You don't overwear it, you don't overwash it, because the Plan B is - gold.

  Salma Hayek

  Black, Gold, Dinner

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• You are thirty minutes late." "Yes." "Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?" "No." "Why not, pray tell?" "Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.

  Charles Bukowski

  Would Be, Why Not, Praying

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.249, Canongate Books

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• There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.

  Haruki Murakami

  Smell, Dying, Way

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• It's a good thing Kerry's dead, because that funeral would've sent him over the edge," Henry said.

  Gayle Forman

  Good Things, Said, Over The Edge

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.81, Penguin

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• I don't want to go into a fridge at an undertaker's. I want you to keep me at home until the funeral. Please can someone sit with me in case I get lonely? I promise not to scare you.

  Jenny Downham

  Lonely, Home, Promise

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• What about Isabelle?" Simon asked. "Where is she?" The humor, such as it was, left Jace's expression. "She won't come out of her room," he said. "She thinks that what happened to Max was her fault. She won't even come to the funeral." "Have you tried talking to her?" "No," Jace said, "we've been punching her repeatedly in the face instead. Why, do you think that won't work?" "Just thought I'd ask." Simon's tone was mild.

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, Expression, Talking

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• Walking out in the middle of a funeral would be, of course, bad form. So attempting to walk out on one's own was beyond the pale.

  Steve Hockensmith

  Zombie, Would Be, Form

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• Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things. So the follower of the Way stays away from it. Weapons are unhappy tools, not chosen by thoughtful people, to be used only when there is no choice, and with a calm, still mind, without enjoyment. To enjoy using weapons is to enjoy killing people, and to enjoy killing people is to lose your share in the common good. It is right that the murder of many people be mourned and lamented. It is right that a victor in war be received with funeral ceremonies.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  War, Thoughtful, People

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Jerome P. Seaton (2009). “Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way”, p.48, Shambhala Publications

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• Granana doesn't understand what the big deal is. She didn't cry at Olivia's funeral, and I doubt she even remembers Olivia's name. Granana lost, like, ninety-two million kids in childbirth. All of her brothers died in the war. She survived the Depression by stealing radish bulbs from her neighbors' garden, and fishing the elms for pigeons. Dad likes to remind us of this in a grave voice, as if it explained her jaundiced pitilessness: "Boys. Your grandmother ate pigeons."

  Karen Russell

  Brother, Dad, War

  "Haunting Olivia" by Karen Russell, www.newyorker.com. June 13, 2005.

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• Adrian opened his mouth, undoubtedly ready with some inappropriate and mocking comment. Lissa gave him a sharp headshake that kept him quiet. "Aren't there any, I don't know, sleeveless options?" The saleswoman's eyes widened. "No one has ever worn straps to a funeral. It wouldn't be right." "What about shorts?" asked Adrian. "Are they okay if they're with a tie? Because that's what I was gonna go with." The woman looked horrified.

  Richelle Mead

  Eye, Ties, Mouths

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.16, Penguin

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• If 180 million people want to be undead, that’s their funeral, but I happen to like being alive.

  e. e. cummings

  People, Alive, Want

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• Tell me about your family," I said. And so she did. I listened intently as my mother went through each branch of the tree. Years later, after the funeral, Maria had asked me questions about the family - who was related to whom - and I struggled. I couldn't remember. A big chunk of our history had been buried with my mother. You should never let your past disappear that way.

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Past, Years

  Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.103, Hachette UK

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• Stop stealing the funeral meats right now, you wee scuggers!" She shouted. The Feegles stopped and stared at her. Then Rob Anybody said: "Socks wi'oot feets?

  Terry Pratchett

  Meat, Stealing, Said

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• Gerald Westerby, he told himself. You were present at your birth. You were present at your several marriages and at some of your divorces, and you will certainly be present at your funeral. High time, in our considered view, that you were present at certain other crucial moments in your history.

  John le Carre

  Divorce, Views, Birth

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• My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.

  Shirley Manson

  Beautiful, Albums, Made

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• I'll always remember when I bumped into Good Morning America's Robin Roberts on a flight to my mother's funeral in 1994, and how kind she was during that difficult time.

  Gayle King

  Mother, Morning, America

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• Oh, hey, Claire,” she said, and blinked. “Where are you going?” “Funeral,” Shane said. On-screen, a zombie shrieked and died gruesomely. “Yeah? Cool! Whose?” “Hers.” Shane said.

  Rachel Caine

  Zombie, Hey, Claire

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• Ranger picked up and there was a moment of silence as if he was sensing me at the other end, taking my body temperature and heart rate long distance. “Babe,” he finally said. “Do you know the slum apartment building Bobby Sunflower owns on Stark?” “Yes. It’s on the same block as his funeral home.” “That’s the one. I’m going in to look for someone. If you don’t hear from me in a half hour maybe you could send someone to check.” “Is this a smart thing to do?” “Probably not.” “As long as you know,” Ranger said. And he disconnected.

  Janet Evanovich

  Block, Smart, Distance

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Sizzling Sixteen”, p.20, Macmillan

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• A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be.

  Thomas Lynch

  Needs, Good Fun

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• If men refuse to be kindled, sparks can only burn themselves out, just as paper images and carriages burn out on the street during funerals.

  Lu Xun

  Men, Causes, Paper

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• Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.

  Ben Casnocha

  Men, Talking, Giving

  "My start-up life". Book by en Casnocha, abcnews.go.com. 2007.

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• Sometimes funerals and weddings bring out the worst rather than the best in people.

  Jeanne Phillips

  Women, People, Sometimes

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