Quotes on Funeral

An evangelizer must never look like someone who has just come back from a funeral.

With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.

Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.

The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures, love and light, And calm thoughts, regular as infants' breath; And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

I'd been told of all the things you're meant to feel when your father dies. Sudden freedom, growing up, the end of dependence, the step into the sunlight when no one is taller than you and you're in no one's shadow. I know what I felt. Lonely.

Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral.

Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things.

There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing in God amounts to coming to terms with death. When you have accepted death, the problem of God will be solved, and not the reverse.

It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding.

You know how funerals are not for the dead, they’re for the living? Bachelor parties are not for the groom, they’re for the uncommitted.

Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

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.

He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

I have heard it said that winter, too, will pass, that spring is a sign that summer is due at last. See, all we have to do is hang on.

The Bible is not a script for a funeral service, but it is the record of God always bringing life where we expected to find death. Everywhere it is the story of resurrection.

Who knows when the end is reached? Death may be the beginning of life. How do I know that love of life is not a delusion after all? How do I know that he who dreads to die is as a child who has lost the way and cannot find his way home? How do I know that the dead repent of having previously clung to life?

I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation.

Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.