Quotes About Funeral

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

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

We both laugh. And it feels good. A release. Like laughing at a funeral. Maybe inappropriate, but definitely needed.

I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics.

As a kid, I would wake up, and there'd be a jazz funeral while I'm walking to school. And when I come home, you can find Rebirth band playing for a birthday party the same day.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

At my age, I regard each funeral I attend as a personal triumph, because I was not the guest of honor.

Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.

Saying, 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying, 'I apologize.' Except at a funeral.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

I'll tell you what makes my blood boil?... Crematoriums.

I went to a funeral recently, and they handed out Kleenex before the funeral. Which I thought was cocky.

I've been to some funerals where there's a lot of laughing - it's about celebrating their new journey. I can't think of anything. There's humor in everything. There's gotta be humor in everything.

I never saw a dollar bill cry at anyone's funeral.

he must deny his right to himself, and he must realize who Jesus Christ is before he will bring himself to do it. Beware of refusing to go to the funeral of your own independence

The face of the dead man was concealed, of course, our customs not being those of the south, where corpses are carried to the grave in open coffins, that they might – one last time before slipping into the pit – be warmed by the light of the sun.

The ride to the funeral home went quicker than I expected, especially given the lack of conversation during the ride. I knew why I was silent. I had more to think about than any twenty people usually did in an entire lifetime.

Good Lord, if you denied sinners a funeral service in the church, there wouldn't be any," I said.

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

What do you do for a living in Maine, Miss Kent?" "I'm a casket maker.

Blacks are particularly loyal to funeral homes, and the rumor that a black home has been bought by white interests can wreck the business.

I want to write my own eulogy, and I want to write it in Latin. It seems only fitting to read a dead language at my funeral.

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