Funeral Wish Quotes

#1. The tea tasted like a clear dark dripping from the past. My grandmother came back with it, in crisp black funeral silks,

Ross Macdonald

#2. I hadn't understood funeral pyres before, but now I do. It's ghastly to burn someone you love but watching the smoke going into the sky, I think that's rather beautiful now. And I wish Tess could be up in the sky. Somewhere with color and light and air.

Rosamund Lupton

#3. If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.

Katherine Mansfield

#4. They seem to have accepted that she's gone." "I don't see how they could be sure she is. But I wish we'd known. Could've brought some flowers." "Daedra never suggested this. It seems to be a surprise." "A surprise funeral? You do that, here?" "A first, for me.

William Gibson

#5. I wish to declare with all earnestness that I do not want any religious ceremonies performed for me after my death. I do not believe in such ceremonies, and to submit to them, even as a matter of form, would be hypocrisy and an attempt to delude ourselves and others.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#6. I hope you die ...
P.S. If you do die, I'm going to go to the funeral and finger your corpse.

Michael Ian Black

#7. You owe me!" -Stephanie
"Why do I owe you?" -Joe
"I caught your no good cousin." -Stephanie
"Yeah and in the process you burned down a funeral home, and damaged thousands of dollars of government property." -Joe
"Well if you are going to be picky about it ... " -Stephanie

Janet Evanovich

#8. Black funeral dress. Black heels. Black headband in my hair. Death has a style all it's own. I'm glad I don't have to wear it very often.

Courtney C. Stevens

#9. Mum, at Sam's funeral, I didn't cry ... is that
is that normal?"
"Lauren, write in your journal and you'll feel better.

Amelia Mysko

#10. Yesterday I fell in love,
today feels like my funeral,
I just got hit by a bus,
shouldn't have been so beautiful,
dont know why I gave my heart,
gave my trust,
gave everything.

Chris Brown

#11. Someday I'll wish upon a star And wake up where the clouds Are far behind me Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops that's where you'll find me

Eva Cassidy

#12. If you thought it was my goddamned fault, couldn't you have called me and told me he was gone? it would have been fucking plus to come to his fucking funeral, you bloodless whore - you ever think of that?

Amy Lane

#13. Jesus ruined every funeral he attended including his own.

Bill Johnson

#14. We were heading into the clumsy territory of my mother's funeral, stretched-out silences, wrong smiles, the place where words didn't work.

Donna Tartt

#15. Never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.

L.M. Montgomery

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

Keith Richards

#17. After you died I could not hold a funeral,
And so my life became a funeral.

Han Kang

#18. The moment one is born, the 'saw starts cutting'. People consider it as death only when the wood breaks in two pieces [during funeral]. But it was being cut from the very beginning.

Dada Bhagwan