#funerals

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

— Clarence Darrow

#church #closer #depressions #funerals #may

If you don't go to other men funerals they won't go to yours. ↗

— Clarence Day

#go #men #other #won #you

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#dealing #death #difficult #difficult things #disease

It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#agree #certainly #cruel #currently #difficult

Funerals consist of older generations initiating the younger into another adulthood. Filling spaces of the one passed. ↗

— Darnell Lamont Walker

#initiation #death

Sensei says funerals are not really for the dead. They are for those left behind. "The dead are long gone by the time a funeral is held," he told us. "Who would wait when the doors of Heaven are open? Only the living would be foolish enough to still hang around on earth. ↗

— Sandy Fussell

#funerals #life #death

Do you really think anyone needs some kind of notarized statement saying 'Dear Saint Peter, here's another stiff, pass him through the gates, signed, Father McGonnigill.'...'PS: He once had a hot dog on a Friday, but don't hold that against him.' ↗

— P. N. Elrod

#funerals #lady-crymsyn #religion-philosophy #vampire-files #death

God helps everything come to pass. However, he reminds us that nothing comes to stay. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#death #family #friends #funerals #life

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. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#days #few #funerals #going #i

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. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#appear #beheld #city #funerals #indecent