Top Funeral Quotes

The more death, the more birth. People are entering, others are exiting. The cry of a baby, the mourning of others. When others cry, the other are laughing and making merry. The world is mingled with...

Life is but a story told at one's funeral

Funeral Definition

(n.) The solemn rites used in the disposition of a dead human body, whether such disposition be by interment, burning, or otherwise; esp., the ceremony or solemnization of interment; obsequies; burial; -- formerly used in the plural.

(n.) The procession attending the burial of the dead; the show and accompaniments of an interment.

(n.) A funeral sermon; -- usually in the plural.

(n.) Per. taining to a funeral; used at the interment of the dead; as, funeral rites, honors, or ceremonies.

Most people are not really scared of death. They are merely terrified of being taken to a mortuary and/or being buried or cremated and/or being forgotten.

Yes, you are still grieving for the fact that Olly is not loving you as you love him. But death is no solution. Certainly not this horrible, messy death. Could you at least not consider possible optio...

Every single living thing is food to at least one living thing.

Death would be an extremely bad thing like most of us paint it, if being dead were painful.

I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening.

How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

Like weddings, funerals are about unity. Funerals are the unity of a person with the sweet hereafter, assuming that one believes in such a thing.

It was a haunting tune, unresigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black against the brilliant sky, Fire's fiddle cried out for the dead, and for the living who s...

The point is that no matter what you choose to do with your body when you die, it won't, ultimately, be very appealing. If you are inclined to donate yourself to science, you should not let images of...

Be aware of this truth that the people on this earth could be joyous, if only they would live rationally and if they would contribute mutually to each others' welfare.This world is not a vale of sorro...

Lastly he looked at the face so caved and drawn among the folds of funeral cloth, the yellowed moustache, the eyelids paper thin. That was not sleeping. That was not sleeping.

Being fired has some of the advantages of dying without its supreme disadvantages. People say extra-nice things about you, and you get to hear them.

I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah.

What a waste.. All those people saying all those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of it.

Pa said, Won't you say a few words? Ain't none of our folks ever been buried without a few words. Connie led Rose of Sharon to the graveside, she reluctant. You got to, Connie said. It ain't decent no...

it is sad to fill a grave with a person full of potential yet completely emptied of anymore possibility to try it once again.

Don't cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead.