funeral quotes

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I’m listening to it.

My mum passing away wasn’t funny, but that funeral and what I went through, the things that happened, looking back at it, there were funny moments. You have to be strong enough to look back at it, to sit and assess the situation.

That’s the most terrible thing about being an author – standing there at your mother’s funeral, but you don’t switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Who was it said – one of the famous lady novelists – ‚unhappy is the family that contains an author‘?

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

I delayed my father’s funeral because of cricket.

I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.