Funeral Quotes
In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic. In the country it is a form of entertainment.
- George Ade
The care of funeral, the manner of burial, the pomp of obsequies, are rather a consolation to the living than of any service to the dead.
- St. Augustine of Hippo
As grand and griefless as a rich man's funeral.
- Sidney Dobell
I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.
- Maria Edgeworth
To those left behind memorial services serve as a sort of surrogate encounter with death.
- Hugh Casson
Friends make pretence of following to the grave, but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people, and things they understand.
- Robert Frost
And all along the path to the cemetery the round dark heads of men crowded silently, and black-scarved faces of women folk, wistfully watch at the banner of death, and the mystery.
- D. H. Lawrence
I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while and think of what sort of mourners he is training for the event.
- Robert T. Morris
I cannot think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have lived than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral.
- Lord Mountbatten