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Tag Name "Funeral" (357)

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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
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God's finger touched him, and he slept.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.
Ambrose Bierce
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Gerald Westerby, he told himself. You were present at your birth. You were present at your several marriages and at some of your divorces, and you will certainly be present at your funeral. High time, in our considered view, that you were present at certain other crucial moments in your history.
John le Carre
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Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because he has had the management of it.
William Cornelius Van Horne
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In death a hero, as in life a friend!
Alexander Pope
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The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.
John Clare
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The flower fades and dies but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.
Rabindranath Tagore
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I remember in 'Pride and Prejudice' I had to do a scene where I broke down. And before we filmed I spent like three hours imagining my mum's funeral. Actually, she's very much alive, happy and healthy. It was really horrible.
Carey Mulligan
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Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.' That doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday.
Albert Camus
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So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted.
Alan Seeger
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At my funeral, if one said, 'Nick was a generous person,' trust me I won't be doing cartwheels in my coffin. Recognition from people is never and never will be a goal. Some people strive for that respect or honor. Living a life to just reach for the position and status is vanity and sin.
Nick Vujicic
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With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.
William Shakespeare
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When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
William Shakespeare
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Everyone dies but not everyone lives.
William Wallace
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I wrote Miner's Prayer after [grandfather] died. I'd gone back to his funeral, and he died in 1979. And I came back to California, and I think a couple of weeks after that funeral wrote that song thinking about him, his life.
Dwight Yoakam
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Maybe lurking in my unconscious was the idea that when someone's collected poems are published it means that the poet is dead. I found myself looking at my work as if I were at my own funeral.
Ron Padgett
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I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music, have children to my music and play my music at their funerals.
Wynonna Judd
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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
Adam McKay
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You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.
Yogi Berra
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In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
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It's my policy not to review funerals.
A.M. Homes
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Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
Charles Caleb Colton
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