Great Funeral Quotes

#1. I foresee a great funeral contest over me.

Alexander The Great

#2. The empty court is locked up. If all the injustice it has committed and all the misery it has caused could only be locked up with it, and the whole burnt away in a great funeral pyre - why

Charles Dickens

#3. I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

Maria Edgeworth

#4. No matter how great a man is, the size of his funeral usually depends on the weather.

Rosemary Clooney

#5. To hear how much of a great human being you were - even if you really weren't - open your ears at your funeral.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#6. The people protesting to save these woods are right - these trees are almost untouched. His voice was different somehow. It was exactly the sound in his voice that I heard at the funeral of my great-uncle.

Ned Hayes

#7. Michael O'Sullivan was my great friend. But I don't ever remember telling him that. The words that are spoken at a funeral are spoken too late for the man who is dead.

Ian Bannen

#8. My uncle told a great story with his life, but I think there was such a sadness at his funeral because his story wasn't finished. If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died. But my uncle died too soon.

Donald Miller

#9. I am going to seek the great Perhaps.

Francois Rabelais

#10. It was a great softening, night and day it continued, a water funeral for the dying winter.

Alan Furst