Funeral Quotes - page 4

It's shameful to spot a lie and not to name it, shameful to name it and then to shut your eyes, shameful to call a funeral a wedding and play the fool at funerals besides. (Andrey Voznesensky)
Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried. View quote
Charles Wolfe
The funeral and the marriage, now, alas! We know not which is sadder to recall. View quote
Emma Lazarus
Painting the sensual with thy hues divine,- Thou turn'st away thy face, while scattering Perchance upon his brow some fading flowers, Of which he strives to twine a funeral crown, Spending his life to weave a wreath of death! View quote
Zygmunt Krasiński
Love is the funeral of hearts. View quote
Ville Valo
Somebody once said that a wedding is a funeral where you can smell your own flowers. Well, that's a harsh judgement in my book. I prefer to see it as a sexual relationship that is recognised by the police. View quote
John Cooper Clarke
A suit where I can fall down drunk in a ditch get up the next morning and go on to a wedding; or more likely a funeral at my time of life. I could go to six a week but no man can live on vol-au-vents alone. View quote
John Cooper Clarke
No funeral gloom, my dears, when I am gone, corpse-gazing, tears, black raiment, graveyard grimness. Think of me as withdrawn into the dimness, yours still, you mine. Remember all the best of our past moments, and forget the rest; and so to where I wait, come gently on. View quote
William Allingham
I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
This is the funeral pyre and Troy is dead That sparkled so the day I saw it first, And darkened slowly after. I am she Who loves all beauty - yet I wither it. View quote
Sara Teasdale
My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening. (Alice Roosevelt Longworth)
The mind will subside only by means of the enquiry 'Who am I?'. The thought 'Who am I?', destroying all other thoughts, will itself finally be destroyed like the stick used for stirring the funeral pyre. View quote
Ramana Maharshi
Eerily, the coronation was kind of a reverse of Tatianaʹs funeral. What was the old saying? The queen is dead. Long live the queen. View quote
Richelle Mead
His pear-shaped head, I could now see, was situated on top of a pear-shaped body, which his black gown caused to resemble a piece of fruit going to a funeral. View quote
Clive James
If you're dressed for my funeral, it's too casual. If it's just street clothes, then you must be scaring the tourists. View quote
Laurell K. Hamilton
All the police are going to get me for is running a funeral parlor without a license. View quote
John Wayne Gacy
If 180 million people want to be undead, that's their funeral, but I happen to like being alive. View quote
E. E. Cummings
And if I die before I wake, I pray the lord my soul to take but please don't cry, just know that I have made these songs for you, and if I die before I wake I pray the lord my soul to take cause I'm ready for a funeral. View quote
Kid Cudi
Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. View quote
Enoch Powell
There is a peculiar atmosphere in the Committee this afternoon that I do not think that I am the only one to have sensed. It is not an agreeable atmosphere; it is an atmosphere of a certain embarrassment, or even suppressed tension. For a time I was striving to locate the parallel atmosphere of which I was being reminded. Then, suddenly, it occurred to me what it was. It is an atmosphere that will be familiar to nearly all hon. Members who have suffered a near and severe bereavement. We are in the circumstances of a household, between a decease and a funeral when the body is still in the house. View quote
Enoch Powell
I generally try to avoid funerals: they make me angry. I know the purpose of a funeral is to provide comfort and a sense of closure for the bereaved; and I agree, in principle, that this is generally a good thing. But the default package usually comes with a priest, and when they start driveling on about how Uncle Fred (who died aged sixty-two of a hideous brain tumor) is safe in the ever-loving arms of Jesus, the effect it has on me is not to make me love my creator: it's to wish I could punch him in the face repeatedly. (Charles Stross)
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers. View quote
Eddie Cantor
In testimony of the respect in which his memory is held by the Government and people of the United States, I do hereby direct that the flags of the White House and of the several Departmental buildings be displayed at half staff for a period of thirty days, and that suitable military and naval honors under orders of the Secretary of War and of the Secretary of the Navy may be rendered on the day of the funeral. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
Gone with the Wind, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, they all should have had the hero cut down by a Dalek, and they would've been vastly improved really. View quote
Russell T Davies