Quotes and Sayings About Funeral

It's my policy not to review funerals.
-- A.M. Homes

#Funeral #Reviews #Policy

Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.
-- Aaron Eckhart

#Death #Funeral #Important

I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.
-- Albert Brooks

#Running #People #Funeral

There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing in God amounts to coming to terms with death. When you have accepted death, the problem of God will be solved, and not the reverse.
-- Albert Camus

#Believe #Funeral #Problem

Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.
-- Alexander Pope

#Years #Funeral #Age

Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.
-- Alexander Smith

#Nature #Funeral #Picnics

I foresee a great funeral contest over me.
-- Alexander the Great

#Funeral #Last Words #Contests

ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Science #Snakes #Funeral

Weddings and funerals are when you figure out who your real friends are.
-- Amy Dickinson

#Women #Real #Funeral

We may all host ourselves to death, and if we're all dead who will host our funerals?
-- Amy Poehler

#Funeral #May #Host

When you're at your own parents' funeral, when you're at somebody that you love's funeral, you realize how precious life is. And you say, "As long as I can walk and I'm healthy, there's always tomorrow."
-- Andrew Dice Clay

#Long #Funeral #Parent

I used to sing at funeral homes for families that didn't have a vocalist. I didn't get paid. I needed to sing.
-- Anita Baker

#Home #Funeral #Used

It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because unless you do that, the loved one dies for you again and again.
-- Ann-Marie MacDonald

#Fire #Views #Funeral

I did become quite well known from 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', and it helped hugely. I wasn't as famous as Hugh Grant, but I certainly began to work.
-- Anna Chancellor

#Funeral #Four #Well Known

I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.
-- Anna Deavere Smith

#Father #Funeral #Remember

[I]n contrast to the common belief that they are the world's greatest cynics, the best journalists are the world's great idealists. They have experienced firsthand the great soothing balance of human existence. For every disgrace there is triumph, for every wrong there is a moment of justice, for every funeral a wedding, for every obituary a birth announcement.
-- Anna Quindlen

#Justice #Funeral #Balance

My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.
-- Anne Rice

#Flower #White #Funeral

Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral
-- Arthur C. Clarke

#Religious #Funeral #Kind

A eugoogoolizer...one who speaks at funerals...Or did you think I was too stupid to know what a eugoogooly was?
-- Ben Stiller

#Stupid #Thinking #Funeral

A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put.
-- Bernard Ramm

#Tombstone #Cutting #Funeral

Life is lived on its ownother's shoulders are used only at the time of funeral.
-- Bhagat Singh

#Funeral #Life Is #Used

Life's too short for a funeral.
-- Bill Smith

#Death #Suicide #Funeral

At my dad's funeral I didn't cry when my dad died. I did it years later when I forgave him, which I've totally forgiven him and I loved my dad.
-- Billy Bob Thornton

#Dad #Years #Funeral

People are scared to make something that doesn't look like another film that made a lot of money. It means we get 'Four Weddings And A Funeral' made again and again.
-- Billy Boyd

#Mean #People #Funeral

Although I have always loved the noise of laughter, I really can't fear the coming of quiet. As for funerals, I rather like them. Such nice things are always said about the deceased, I feel sad that they had to miss hearing it all by just a few days.
-- Bob Monkhouse

#Laughter #Nice #Funeral

I think weddings are sadder than funerals, because they remind you of your own wedding. You can't be reminded of your own funeral because it hasn't happened. But weddings always make me cry.
-- Brendan Behan

#Thinking #Funny Marriage #Funeral

... the introduction of the doctrine of polygamy was the first time in my life that I desired the grave, and I could hardly get over it for a long time. And when I saw a funeral, I felt to envy the corpse its situation.
-- Brigham Young

#Long #Envy #Funeral

A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.
-- C. Everett Koop

#People #Smoking #Funeral

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

#Pride #Funeral #Healthy

I've been at the funerals of a lot of people in my neighborhood. Sometimes when I sit back and relax, I think about that and just blank out.
-- Carmelo Anthony

#Thinking #People #Funeral