Top 182 Funerals Quotes & Sayings

Death was a big part of my life growing up. I went to lots of funerals.

People get way too much credit at funerals.

I done been to so many funerals.

You can easily take photographs at a wedding - no one would question it. But funerals are different.

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

I always say to people that Zimbabweans are the funniest people in Africa; we even laugh at funerals. And it's true. I mean, there are so many jokes about funerals. There are so many jokes about AIDS. We find ways of coping with pain by laughing at it and by laughing at ourselves.

Funerals often make us want sex-it's one in the eye for death.

I cry at births and not at funerals.

Sometimes the truth don't rhyme, sometime the lies get millions of views, funerals for little girls is that appealing to you?

My first memories are of picketing ex-servicemen's funerals and telling their families they were going to burn in hell.

You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.

I don't go to racers' funerals.

I find old women at weddings and funerals attractive; I have this weird mortality thing.

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave

Why should I be sad? Everyone has to die. If you have a body, it's too late to cry. It's only funerals I can't stand.

After Auschwitz, I no longer cry at funerals.

A eugoogoolizer...one who speaks at funerals...Or did you think I was too stupid to know what a eugoogooly was?

Sometimes funerals and weddings bring out the worst rather than the best in people.

I've been at the funerals of a lot of people in my neighborhood. Sometimes when I sit back and relax, I think about that and just blank out.

Cinemascope is not for men, but for snakes and funerals.

You know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.

These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.

Funerals are all abstract ceremony.

I was terrified of funerals.

It's my policy not to review funerals.

Weddings and funerals have so much in common (except that in Ireland funerals are more fun - better food, better drink): at both, our senses are sharpened and we register much more than usual - a striking face or hair-do, the wind's behaviour, a bird singing.

What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.

Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions.

Funerals prove that someone is really gone.

Some of the best jokes are about funerals or people dying or whatever. Laughter and tears are two sides of the same coin.

Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.

Weddings and funerals are when you figure out who your real friends are.

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.

I'm a typical Irishman in that I only get home for weddings and funerals.

Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.

We have birthdays and bar mitzvahs and funerals and weddings. And these ceremonies and rituals, I believe, really help us transition from one point to another.

People deal with death differently; some even laugh at funerals.

I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.

Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals when their cheery effect is needed.

Bollywood is a great place. You can expect support for award ceremonies, weddings, and funerals.

Philadelphia fans would boo funerals, an Easter egg hunt, a parade of armless war vets and the Liberty Bell.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: "Too bad we can't get together more often".

There are no foodies at funerals.

We don't do funerals in my family.

Funerals...are for the living.

Sometimes funerals can be good. It reunites you with your cousins you haven't seen in a while.

I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning.

Welcome to Israel, where chanting “Death to Arabs” is democracy, running over children is equality, and firing on funerals is peace.

And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.

I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.

You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.

I do think the Welsh have a special enthusiasm for death. My father's always going to funerals of people he doesn't know very well.

Growing up, there were a lot of funerals that I attended, and the adults at the funerals went out of their way to make sure that I wasn't traumatized or overly depressed by them. So death is always a celebration of life for me, and it's also hugely dramatic.

Funerals should celebrate a life.

I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided

Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.