FUNERAL QUOTES III

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


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"


FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.

AMBROSE BIERCE

The Devil's Dictionary


Funerals open a door normally closed, showing the raw humanity of so many.

CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES

"Michael Jackson: The Black Tribal Funeral", The Moderate Voice, July 7, 2009


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