Top 49 Death Funerals Quotes
#1. 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
#2. they had merely acquired
a shared affection for funerals
the way some people
love public holidays:
Thabo Jijana
#3. Wary of being caught unawares, we planned our parenthood, committed to trial marriages with pre-nuptials, and pre-arranged our parents' funerals - convinced we could pre-feel the feelings that we have heard attend new life, true love, and death.
Thomas Lynch
#4. She says that the world is divided into the people who imagine their own funerals and the people who don't, and that smart and artistic people naturally fall into the former category.
Gayle Forman
#5. Do you really think anyone needs some kind of notarized statement saying
'Dear Saint Peter, here's another stiff, pass him through the gates, signed, Father McGonnigill.' ... 'PS: He once had a hot dog on a Friday, but don't hold that against him.'
P.N. Elrod
#6. Thousands of people are being buried and no one attends the funerals,' said one of the soldiers. 'In peacetime it's the other way round: one coffin and a hundred people carrying flowers.
Vasily Grossman
#7. Funerals consist of older generations initiating the younger into another adulthood. Filling spaces of the one passed.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#8. Welcome to Israel, where chanting "Death to Arabs" is democracy, running over children is equality, and firing on funerals is peace.
Remi Kanazi
#9. All death reminds us that nothing is promised, only that life was worth it.
Shannon L. Alder
#10. There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.
Haruki Murakami
#11. I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out
Gayle Forman
#12. Funerals aren't for the dead. They're for the living.
Gavin Extence
#13. Perhaps because it seems so appropriate, I don't notice the rain. It falls in sheets, a blanket of silvery thread rushing to the hard almost-winter ground. Still, I stand without moving at the side of the coffin.
Michelle Zink
#14. Why should I be sad? Everyone has to die. If you have a body, it's too late to cry. It's only funerals I can't stand.
Rachel Klein
#15. Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.
Terry Pratchett
#17. He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!
Albert Camus
#18. I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.
Robert Tappan Morris
#19. Fernanda was scandalized that she did not understand the relationship of Catholicism with life but only its relationship with death, as if it were not a religion but a compendium of funeral conventions.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#20. Directing a funeral isn't about death at all. Funerals are for the living, not the dead.
Rebecca McNutt
#22. There was something unbearable about the damp, dark earth closing over a coffin and the still, empty flesh that was inside. She had attended a hundred funerals, but when you really loved someone there was something too final about a burial. Something brutal.
Sara Sheridan
#23. Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset?
Daniele Vare
#24. This stupidity of sounding a siren and speeding through traffic with a coffin must be an African speciality.
Nana Awere Damoah
#25. You know all my life I've hated funerals. The fuss and bother never brings anybody back. It just spoils remembering them as they really are. And when I see people actually facing it that way, I have to act like a sap.
Jules Furthman
#26. It's not what I'd want for at my funeral. When I die, I just want them to plant me somewhere warm. And then when the pretty women walk over my grave I would grab their ankles, like in that movie.
Neil Gaiman
#27. Mamie told me living rooms were once known as death rooms, back when funerals were a home matter. After mortuaries came into fashion, there was no need for keeping bodies on ice at home, and the death room was rechristened the living room.
Sarah Jude
#28. To make sure I learned the etiquette of grieving, Granny took me with her to the many funerals she attended. O Death, where is thy sting? Search me. I grew up looking at so many corpses that I still feel a faint touch of surprise whenever I see people move.
Florence King
#29. People can act so nice, bringing you food and all, but in the end they are nothing but buzzards. Waiting to pick your bones.
Lee Smith
#30. I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
Baron De Montesquieu
#31. Sensei says funerals are not really for the dead. They are for those left behind. "The dead are long gone by the time a funeral is held," he told us. "Who would wait when the doors of Heaven are open? Only the living would be foolish enough to still hang around on earth.
Sandy Fussell
#32. Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.
J.G. Ballard
#33. Then Mount Jerome for the protestants. Funerals all over the world everywhere every minute.
Shovelling them under by the cartload doublequick.
Thousands every hour. Too many in the world.
James Joyce
#34. I'm the god of funerals. I know every death custom in the world - how to die properly, how to prepare the body and soul for the afterlife. I live for death."
"You must be fun at parties," I said.
Rick Riordan
#35. We're living tragedies, just passing time 'til our funerals.
Robyn Schneider
#36. Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out ofthe window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#37. 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
#38. We may all host ourselves to death, and if we're all dead who will host our funerals?
Amy Poehler
#39. Funerals seem less about comforting the souls of these dearly departed than about
comforting the people they leave behind.
Rin Chupeco
#40. God helps everything come to pass. However, he reminds us that nothing comes to stay.
Shannon L. Alder
#41. Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every eulogy reminds me to deepen my dash, that place on the tombstone between our birth and our death.
Regina Brett
#42. Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.
Aaron Eckhart
#43. I wore a black suit and a white shirt, a black tie and black shoes, all polished and shiny: clothes that normally would make me feel uncomfortable, as if I were in a stolen uniform, or pretending to be an adult. Today they gave me comfort of a kind. I was wearing the right clothes for a hard day.
Neil Gaiman
#44. We stand in black to watch this rite performed, the body in the box, the box in the hole, the dirt on the box.
Johnny Rich
#47. Funerals often make us want sex - it's one in the eye for death.
Thomas Harris
#48. Death was a big part of my life growing up. I went to lots of funerals.
Madonna Ciccone
#49. I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.
John Green
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