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There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.
Sometimes funerals and weddings bring out the worst rather than the best in people.
Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true
We may all host ourselves to death, and if we're all dead who will host our funerals?
What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
No matter how great a man is, the size of his funeral usually depends on the weather.
The stars are not wanted now, put out every one Pack up the moon & dismantle the sun.
Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved.
There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.
A funeral was a great form of entertainment. A wake was a great form of entertainment.
Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.
When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!
That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. "Save them for my funeral," I'd said.
A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be.
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
I wanted to be at my sister's funeral, but my family has always had a complicated dynamic.
The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.
The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
I'm a big Arcade Fire fan. I love the way they make records - 'Funeral' being my favorite.
[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.
I've always found the most tragic things funny. I was always the guy laughing at the funeral.
I've just had some bad news. Tomorrow is the mother in law's funeral. And she's cancelled it.
I hope you die.... P.S. If you do die, I'm going to go to the funeral and finger your corpse.
As I'm lying there at my funeral I would hope to hear somebody say, “Look, he's still moving!
Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there.
Sometimes funerals can be good. It reunites you with your cousins you haven't seen in a while.
Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life.
I played a funeral convention once. York Casket Company pays well, in case anyone's wondering!
One of my first public performances was singing hymns at a funeral for a friend of our family.
If 180 million people want to be undead, that’s their funeral, but I happen to like being alive.
I guess I do prefer a ball cap. I have performed without a cap, mostly at funerals and weddings.
The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.
At times, I pity my comedian image. People start laughing seeing me even in funeral processions.
During my grandma's funeral, I looked over once and saw my mom crying, and I felt so bad for her.
It's a good thing Kerry's dead, because that funeral would've sent him over the edge," Henry said.
In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.
Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.
An elephant funeral makes me weep every time, and so does an ad with a kid leaving home for college.
Everyone has to go to a funeral at some time and you need to be dark and sombre, and in a black tie.
Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.
How unfortunate it is to be constrained by what people might say at our funeral or on our gravestone.
Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
At my age, I regard each funeral I attend as a personal triumph, because I was not the guest of honor.
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.