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  • A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.

  • I've been in so many funeral scenes from The Sopranos, and I think I've even been in one on Sons of Anarchy. Those scenes, as a human being, are the most tedious scenes, of all time. You're waiting, all day, in the blistering hot heat. So, I didn't need to be there.

    Son   Thinking   Funeral  
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  • Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

    Nature   Animal   Men  
  • A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.

  • In every Magical, or similar system, it is invariably the first condition which the Aspirant must fulfill: he must once and for all and for ever put his family outside his magical circle.Even the Gospels insist clearly and weightily on this.Christ himself (i.e. whoever is meant by this name in this passage) callously disowns his mother and his brethren (Luke VIII, 19). And he repeatedly makes discipleship contingent on the total renunciation of all family ties. He would not even allow a man to attend his father's funeral!Is the magical tradition less rigid?Not on your life!

    Mother   Father   Men  
  • Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

    "Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies". Book by John Walker (p. 383), 2001.
  • Gerald Westerby, he told himself. You were present at your birth. You were present at your several marriages and at some of your divorces, and you will certainly be present at your funeral. High time, in our considered view, that you were present at certain other crucial moments in your history.

    Divorce   Views   Funeral  
  • The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

    Death   People   Funeral  
  • The dead don't die. They look on and help.

    Death   Funeral   Looks  
    Letter to J. Middleton Murry, 2 February 1923, in H. T. Moore (ed.) 'Collected Letters of D. H. Lawrence' (1962) vol. 2
  • When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.

    Powerful   Mean   Play  
  • Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage.

    Courage   Men   Funeral  
  • Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

  • A friend of mine said something powerful at his grandfather's funeral. He said that the greatest lesson from his grandfather's life was that he died empty, because he accomplished everything he wanted, with no regrets. I think that, along with leaving a legacy, would be the greatest sign of success.

  • In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

    Mother   Men   Funeral  
    "What is it about Albert Camus' The Outsider that makes it such an enduring favourite with men?" by Marcel Berlins, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2006.
  • A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.

    Death   Men   Funeral  
    E.M. Forster (2015). “Howards End”, p.101, Sheba Blake Publishing
  • The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail.

    Men   Funeral   Details  
    Henry Ford, Rose Wilder Lane, Samuel Crowther “The Story of Henry Ford - An American Dream Cone True”, Lulu.com
  • 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.

    Music   Moving   Circles  
    Song: Circle Of Life 2
  • What we do every St. Patty's day, which is wear green and drink a lot of Guinness. And maybe cry a little bit and laugh, and everyone will have to sing a song. That's how every funeral, christening, and wedding ends up in Ireland. Everyone ends up having to sing a song by the end of it.

    Song   Laughing   Funeral  
    "The legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.
  • You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.

  • I guess I do prefer a ball cap. I have performed without a cap, mostly at funerals and weddings.

    Funeral   Balls   Caps  
  • I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!

  • We were at another funeral party. I wasn’t sure who had died this time, but it was a suicide, and upsetting because it was completely out of season. No on killed themselves in summertime. It was rude.

    Suicide   Party   Funeral  
    Marya Hornbacher (2009). “The Center of Winter: A Novel”, p.7, Harper Collins
  • 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.

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  • The dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That's what the ghouls want a shufti at, like at that Princess Diana's funeral, they want to scrutinise those who really knew her, to drink the misery out of their faces.

    Princess   Men   Ghouls  
    Irvine Welsh (1998). “Filth”, Random House (UK)
  • Mama and I would go to a funeral and she'd stand up to read the dead person's eulogy. She made the ignorant and ugly sound like scholars and movie stars, turned the mean and evil into saints and angels. She knew what people had meant to be in their hearts, not what the world had forced them to become. She knew the ways in which working too hard for paltry wages could turn you mean and cold, could kill the thing that made you laugh.

    Stars   Mean   Angel  
  • As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

    Life   Men   Perspective  
    "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 1,
  • Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.

    People   Funeral   Church  
  • It's not what I'd want for at my funeral. When I die, I just want them to plant me somewhere warm. And then when the pretty women walk over my grave I would grab their ankles, like in that movie.

  • Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been.

    Lying   Men   Should Have  
  • The most important thing I learned [...] was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.

    Silly   Past   People  
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