quotations about funerals
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
GARRISON KEILLOR
"Lecture in San Francisco,", Lake Wobegon Days
It's not what I'd want for at my funeral. When I die, I just want them to plant me somewhere warm. And then when the pretty women walk over my grave I would grab their ankles.
NEIL GAIMAN
American Gods
Funerals are pretty compared to death. Funerals are quiet, but deaths not always.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
A Streetcar Named Desire
So when the friends we love the best lie in their churchyard bed, we must not cry too bitterly over the happy dead; because, for our dear Saviour's sake, our sins are all forgiven; and Christians only fall asleep to wake again in Heaven.
CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER
"Child's Funeral"
Thou art gone to the grave; but we will not deplore thee,
Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb.
REGINALD HEBER
"At a Funeral"
Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had much better been concealed; namely, that their vanity has survived themselves.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon