Funeral Quotes

We live in a world where the funeral matters more than the dead, the wedding more than love and the physical rather than the intellect. We live in the container culture, which despises the content. (Eduardo Galeano)
When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral. View quote
Rosalind Russell
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral. View quote
Charles Lamb
Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it. View quote
Mark Twain
Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating Funeral marches to the grave. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral. View quote
Keith Richards
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. (Mark Twain)
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud. View quote
Walt Whitman
I checked myself out in that funeral parlour scene. I saw myself laughing, because there was a shot of Ed and I together and Mary was right in back of us. My head turned from the camera and I saw myself laughing, because Mary was absolutely brilliant in that thing. View quote
Gavin MacLeod
God is alive. Magic is afoot. God is alive. Magic is afoot. God is afoot. Magic is alive. Alive is afoot. Magic never died. God never sickened. Many poor men lied. Many sick men lied. Magic never weakened. Magic never hid. Magic always ruled. God is afoot. God was ruler though his funeral lengthened. Though his mourners thickened Magic never fled... View quote
Leonard Cohen
Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has been and is not. View quote
George Eliot
Worldly faces, never look so worldly as at a funeral. View quote
George Eliot
In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of entertainment. View quote
George Ade
Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines. View quote
O. Henry
Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral. View quote
Lester Bangs
Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows. (Yukteswar Giri)
Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? For these red lips, with all their mournful pride, Mournful that no new wonder may betide, Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam, And Usna's children died. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men. View quote
Ennius
If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places. View quote
Mark Twain
Ben, that funeral will be massive! They'll come from Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire! All the old-timers with the strange license plates - that boy will be thunderstruck, Ben, because he never realized - I am known! Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey - I am known, Ben, and he'll see it with his eyes once and for all. View quote
Arthur Miller