Funeral Quotes - page 10

On the left is the realist tradition of the 19th century, with its impulse to social description, radical criticism and meditation on things as they are.. ..culminating in Courbet at his mightiest [paintings] (The Studio, The Funeral at Ornans and a portrait of a trout that has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion). (Gustave Courbet)
In our society any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death. View quote
Albert Camus
Catherine announced that he died of hemorrhoidal colic, and people who went to the funeral wondered why, in that case, the large bandage was tied around his neck. And that, gentle reader, is what comes from playing with dolls at the wrong time. View quote
Will Cuppy
George Carlin is in hell. Deal with it. You will soon join him there. America is doomed. We will picket George Carlin's funeral..Amen! View quote
Fred Phelps
Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life. View quote
Plutarch
The life of the avaricious resembles a funeral banquet. For though it has all things requisite to a feast, yet no one present rejoices. View quote
Stobaeus
I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Instead of clinging to the sardonic funeral towers of metropolitan finance, ours to march out to newly plowed fields, to create fresh patterns of political action, to alter for human purposes the perverse mechanisms or our economic regime, to conceive and to germinate fresh forms of human culture. View quote
Lewis Mumford
Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping. Why? I fly, living, through the mouths of men. View quote
Ennius
You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral. View quote
Marina Abramovic
When I saw the funeral scene, I just broke down. I ran out of the cabin into the woods, and for nearly 2-1/2 hours, I just cried: "Why, God, did You take him?" (Bernice King)
(Talking about what he wants at his funeral) View quote
Bill Engvall
Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. View quote
Herman Melville
Society has already told us that poetry is dead. Let's build a funeral pyre out of the desiccated conventions piled around us and watch the ancient, spangle-feathered, unkillable phoenix rise from the ashes. View quote
Dana Gioia
To Harry Secombe I hope you die first as I don't want you singing at my funeral. View quote
Spike Milligan
The night was dark, and a cold wind blew, driving the clouds, furiously and fast, before it. There was one black, gloomy mass that seemed to follow him not hurrying in the wild chase with the others, but lingering sullenly behind, and gliding darkly and stealthily on. He often looked back at this, and, more than once, stopped to let it pass over but, somehow, when he went forward again, it was still behind him, coming mournfully and slowly up, like a shadowy funeral train. View quote
Charles Dickens
Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true. View quote
Horace
I've just had some bad news. Tomorrow is the mother in law's funeral. And she's cancelled it. View quote
Les Dawson
Sound, jocund strains; on pipe and viol sound, Young voices sing; Wreathe every door with snow-white voices round, For lo! 't is Spring! Winter has passed with its sad funeral train, And Love revives again. View quote
Lewis Morris (poet)
The human brain cannot release enough neurotransmitters to feel emotion a thousand times as strong as the grief of one funeral. A prospective risk going from 10,000,000 deaths to 100,000,000 deaths does not multiply by ten the strength of our determination to stop it. It adds one more zero on paper for our eyes to glaze over. View quote
Eliezer Yudkowsky
The human brain cannot release enough neurotransmitters to feel emotion a thousand times as strong as the grief of one funeral. (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs. View quote
Charles James Napier
The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral. View quote
Simon Hoggart
I went to a funeral the other day. Caught the wreath. View quote
Simon Munnery
3 Million for the funeral of Margaret Thatcher? For 3 Million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person. View quote
Frankie Boyle