Quotes About Cremated

#1. After many ponderous experiments the first crematorium was opened in December 1920 in Petrograd. It could manage barely 120 bodies a month, and, in February 1921, cremated itself when the wooden roof caught fire.

Martin Amis

#2. I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.

Groucho Marx

#3. I understood, that he was right in asking to be cremated. For if he was nowhere, he could be everywhere. As in, with me.

Elizabeth Berg

#4. What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I haven't decided yet.

Richard Dawkins

#5. Between an egg that is fried and an egg that is cremated there is a wide and substantial difference.

P.G. Wodehouse

#6. It is cremated youth. It is all yours
no one gave it to you.

Willa Cather

#7. In nuclear war all men are cremated equal.

Dexter Gordon

#8. A politician should not be written off till he or she is cremated.

George Fernandes

#9. We're all cremated equal.

Jane Ace

#10. Familiarity breeds attempt. Time wounds all heels. I went down on the Lower East Side today and saw all those Old Testament houses. We're all cremated equal. We're insufferable friends. I've been working my head to the bone.

Goodman Ace

#11. I'm left with one consolation, small though it may be: my fountain pen was cremated, just as I would like to be some day.

Anne Frank

#12. I want to be cremated, and I want my ashes blown in Uri Geller's eyes.

James Randi

#13. The next morning, they cremated my grandfather in the belly of our ship. I still have a scarp of the outfit he made for me. These days, I use it as a bookmark.

Brian K. Vaughan

#14. Your father, madam, was fully cremated. I made absolutely certain."
Alexia swallowed silently and then said fervently, "Thank you, Floote.

Gail Carriger

#15. Hotel tea is when you have to mix together a plastic envelope containing too much sugar, a small plastic pot of something which is not milk but has curdled anyway, and a thin brown packet seemingly containing the ashes of a cremated mole.

Frank Muir

#16. The Founding Fathers are always spinning in their graves over something, as is Ronald Reagan, or FDR. Edward R. Murrow is a perennial grave spinner in the news business (though in fact, Murrow was cremated).

Mark Leibovich

#17. My husband wanted to be cremated. I told him I'd scatter his ashes at Neiman Marcus - that way, I'd visit him every day.

Joan Rivers

#18. When I die, I want them to play The Black and Crazy Blues, I want to be cremated, put in a bag of pot and I want beautiful people to smoke me and hope they got something out of it.

Rahsaan Roland Kirk

#19. Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.

Richard Pryor

#20. I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.

Albert Einstein

#21. Most people are not really scared of death. They are merely terrified of being taken to a mortuary and/or being buried or cremated and/or being forgotten.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#22. Maybe Justin, my students, spoiled me for people my own age, usually so boring, talking about their endless health problems, pros/cons of being cremated, not realizing they're already dead in the most tragic way.

Alma Luz Villanueva

#23. I told my kids I just want three words on my tombstone, if I have one. I'll probably be cremated. One is "woman." I'm very comfortable in that role. I've loved being a woman, I've loved being a mother, I've loved being a grandmother. I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#24. Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.

Ville Valo

#25. I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I read or not wouldn't make a difference, I would still be waiting to get cremated.

Gao Xingjian

#26. One simply goes around doing egoism and then ultimately he ends up on the wood of the funeral pyre; such is the pitiful state. And if one is a very good person, he will be cremated with sandalwood. But it is all wood in the end. The true victor is the one who never dies.

Dada Bhagwan

#27. My wife said to me, "I want to be cremated." I said, "How about Tuesday?"

Buddy Hackett

#28. And also ... well ... i told them I want to get an apartment with him next year rather than live in the dorms."
What'd they say?"
Over their dead bodies."
What did you say?"
I asked whether they wanted to be burie or cremated.

Carolyn Mackler

#29. We were having tea with my mother-in-law the other day and out of the blue she said, "I've decided I want to be cremated." I said, "Alright, get your coat."

Dave Spikey

#30. Why, her father would turn in his grave
well, as a matter of fact, he was cremated, but what I mean is, if he hadn't been he would have. [Ermyntrude]

Georgette Heyer

#31. This was not just any urn. It was a cremation urn, housing the powdered remains of Mrs. Pule's mother Wanda, a woman so mean and nasty that she had it put in writing that upon her death she wished to be cremated and have her ashes scattered over people who had annoyed her.

Gerry Swallow

#32. There are secrets I will take to the grave and others I'd feel safer having cremated.

Robert Breault

#33. I have a hard problem, being some part Native American - being a Christian: do you get burned, do you get cremated, do you get - let the sharks eat you? How do you die?

Duane Chapman

#34. Sifting through an urn of cremated remains you cannot tell if a person had successes, failures, grandchildren, felonies. "For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.

Caitlin Doughty

#35. When I die, I want to be cremated with everybody.

Anthony Jeselnik

#36. Enoch ... why are you here?
Why has my spirit been incarnated into a physical bodi in this world generally? Or specifically, why am I here in a Swedish forest, standing on the wreck of a mysterious German rocket plane while a homosexual German sobs over the cremated remains of his Italian lover?

Neal Stephenson

#37. When Theolyn died, the humans had built an enormous pyre and placed his body at the center. How was [Veka] supposed to know humans cremated their dead instead of cooking them? She had figured it out quickly enough, but not before Jimar and his ilk had spotted her standing at the pyre, fork in hand.

Jim C. Hines

#38. The last time somebody was cremated, his ashes were sprinkled from a crop duster. We all ran for cover. We liked him fine, but we didn't want him all over our good clothes.

Gayden Metcalfe

#39. I've changed my mind. I've decided that at the end I want to be cremated and my ashes scattered over someone I don't like.

J. Michael Straczynski

#40. My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.

Keith Richards

#41. I wouldn't like to be cremated', she said.
'You'd prefer worms?'
'Yes, I would.

Graham Greene

#42. My soft voice and demeanor were useless. In a pint jar, I carried a cremated friend, like flesh scraped from a cistern.

Henri Cole

#43. She'd bottled herself up like a person already cremated.

Bette Lee Crosby

#44. Instant coffee is just old beans that have been cremated.

Jennifer Saunders

#45. I wouldn't warm to [Chuck Berry] even if I was cremated next to him.

Keith Richards

#46. I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#47. When I die, nieces, I want to be cremated, my ashes taken up in a bush plane and sprinkled onto the people in town below. Let them think my body is snowflakes, sticking in their hair and on their shoulders like dandruff.

Joseph Boyden