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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.
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.
Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn.
I will miss my pal Dominick Dunne. I am sure his funeral will be just the sort of event he would have loved. Based on who will be there, I am sure he wishes he could have been there to cover it.
I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.
The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite.
I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.
Science advances one funeral at a time.
Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out ofthe window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise.
It amazes me that the most Christian funerals are the most barbaric funeral rites of passage that are celebrated anywhere in the world.
I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that like?' and I was like, 'It was normal', because it's all I knew.
If any of you cry at my funeral, I'll never speak to you again!
It’s so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.
I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she had a sad little funeral in Montparnasse in Paris.
Don't go to the funeral until the day of the funeral - live this day.
I went to my mother right before I was set to go protest my first soldier's funeral and asked my mother: 'I need to understand why we're doing this.'
A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.
Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.
Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.
As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice.
I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.
I grew up singing in church. My family owned funeral homes so I would sing for the occasional funeral, as well.
I have passed the mountain peak and my soul is soaring in the firmament of Complete and unbounded freedom; I am in comfort, I am in peace.
My grandfather had a wonderful funeral... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad.
My biggest blast-off hit was 'You Raise Me Up.' If you ever have a wedding or a funeral, it's a good pick.
Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral.
As a kid, I would wake up, and there'd be a jazz funeral while I'm walking to school. And when I come home, you can find Rebirth band playing for a birthday party the same day.
My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.
Stop stealing the funeral meats right now, you wee scuggers!" She shouted. The Feegles stopped and stared at her. Then Rob Anybody said: "Socks wi'oot feets?
In the United States, large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation's funeral at our expense.
The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing which we most want, happens to be the only thing we never purchase--our coffin.
Presidential hopeful Jeb Bush has released all of his emails. I'd like to release all of my emails. I've got nothing but emails about low-cost funerals and Viagra.
I like a decent funeral, and God knows in my family we've seen enough of them. Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.'
When many people are killed, they should be mourned and lamented. Those who are victorious in war should follow the rites of funerals.
A comedy ends with a wedding, and a tragedy ends with a funeral: you always have to juxtapose sex and death.
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.
I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage, but that - don't go to the funeral before the day of the funeral.
I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.
Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.
We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.
Mitt Romney, two-time Republican presidential candidate, is going to fight Evander Holyfield for charity. I hope they save some of that money for funeral expenses.
Keep your chin up, and don't go to the funeral - mine or yours or your loved one's - until the day of the funeral because then you miss the life that you have left.
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.