Welcome to our collection of Funeral Quotes, a page dedicated to offering you heartfelt and meaningful words of solace during times of loss and remembrance. In moments of grief and sorrow, finding the right words to express your condolences and pay tribute to a departed loved one can be a challenging task. That’s where we come in – here, you will discover a curated selection of quotes that capture the essence of love, loss, and the enduring memories that bind us to those we’ve lost.
Whether you’re seeking comforting words to include in a sympathy card, a eulogy, or simply to find solace for yourself, our Funeral Quotes page is a valuable resource. You can easily copy these quotes and use them in various ways – from creating beautiful images to enhancing them with stylish fonts, allowing you to create heartfelt and personalized tributes to honor your loved ones during this difficult time. Scroll down to find the quotes on this topic that will provide you with the support and inspiration you need.
Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it will be met possibly with a protest or a demonstration. Steve Buyer
If I were to die today, I would be nervous about what people would say at my funeral. I would be happy if they said things like, ‘He was a nice guy’ or, ‘He was occasionally decent’ or, ‘Mike wasn’t as bad as a lot of people.’ Mike Yaconelli
A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers. Eddie Cantor
Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn’t stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass. E. O. Wilson
I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness. Carl Hiaasen
Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral. Rosalind Russell
The rationale for tenure is still valid. But the system has turned the academy into one of the most conservative and costly institutions in the country. Yes, conservative: Economists joke that their discipline advances one funeral at a time, but many fields must wait for wholesale generational turnover before new approaches take hold. Francis Fukuyama
I was working for Martin Finnegan. He was my best mate in racing. I went to his wedding in November 2007. No-one else from the racing world was invited apart from me and my girlfriend. The funeral was the following May. Guy Martin
My biggest blast-off hit was ‘You Raise Me Up.’ If you ever have a wedding or a funeral, it’s a good pick. Josh Groban
In the United States, large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation’s funeral at our expense. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It amazes me that the most Christian funerals are the most barbaric funeral rites of passage that are celebrated anywhere in the world. Steve Earle
The Nobel is a ticket to one’s own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. T. S. Eliot
The big debate right now is if Saddam is alive or dead. He’s dead, then he’s alive, then dead, then alive. It’s just confusing. Today they showed videotape, and Saddam was speaking at his own funeral. David Letterman
When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack. Gwen Moore
I’ve got no idea when I am going to retire. Whenever they pick me up and take me to the funeral home, I guess. Colonel Sanders
I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she had a sad little funeral in Montparnasse in Paris. It was rainy. It was all wrong. And I was thinking, ‘God, she loved life so much.’ Marina Abramovic
We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral. James Larkin
When I die, I’ll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral! Rick Wakeman
If any of you cry at my funeral, I’ll never speak to you again! Stan Laurel
I have experienced a murderer among my friends. Many, many years ago. At close range I have seen the impact of it. I knew the victim, I went to the funeral, I have been to the house, to the specific room where the killing took place, and I was stunned by it. It’s such a blow. Karin Fossum
The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral – whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I’m in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I’m lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense. Maggie Rowe
I’ve just had some bad news. Tomorrow is the mother in law’s funeral. And she’s cancelled it. Les Dawson
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’? Terry Pratchett
My mum had 14 pregnancies – but only four of us survived. We had a little sister born for a few days and she died. There had to be a funeral. Tyson Fury
I played a funeral convention once. York Casket Company pays well, in case anyone’s wondering! Chris Young
You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather. Chuck Tanner
When a nation’s young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung. Henry Ward Beecher
I have asked to have no funeral, and no memorial service. I hate other people’s and would certainly not appreciate my own. Charles Saatchi
Michael died five years ago this January, and the first thing that really struck me about the script was the part about her peeling off from the funeral and just getting into a rowboat and having a real kind of cry where nobody was. Judi Dench
I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah. Jesse Eisenberg
I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it’s a passage, but that – don’t go to the funeral before the day of the funeral. Valerie Harper
We’re passionate musicians, but we felt classical concerts were more like a funeral because nobody talked and everybody was dressed so conservatively. We thought that’s kind of strange, because music is full of life! We thought we could break through that barrier with theater and comedy elements. Aleksey Igudesman
If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, ‘Your son was vaporized because we didn’t want to dump some guy’s head under water for 30 seconds.’ Peter T. King
I’m a big Arcade Fire fan. I love the way they make records – ‘Funeral’ being my favorite. Tom Odell
I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car. Steven Wright
Obviously if you are an accountant, a criminal lawyer, a president, or a senator, or if you work in a funeral parlor, you have to wear a tie, but more and more people are wearing very casual clothes. Jean Pigozzi
I’ve lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. 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. Terry Pratchett
If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success. Stephen Covey
As a pastor, you get invited into the most poignant moments of people’s lives. Whether it’s a wedding or a funeral or a hospital visit, you get invited into the center of the event, whether or not you know the people. Rob Bell
Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That’s luck. That’s randomness. Ben Casnocha
I went to Jimmy Gandolfini’s funeral, and when I was there, I realized Jimmy Gandolfini didn’t have Twitter. Alec Baldwin
At my funeral, if one said, ‘Nick was a generous person,’ trust me I won’t be doing cartwheels in my coffin. Recognition from people is never and never will be a goal. Some people strive for that respect or honor. Living a life to just reach for the position and status is vanity and sin. Nick Vujicic
The two biggest meals of your life you don’t have to cook and you don’t get to eat. The first you don’t eat because no man eats – or cares what he eats – at his wedding. The second you don’t eat because, well, no man eats at his funeral, either. Tom Junod
A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in. Irvin S. Cobb
When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa’s funeral. I was always the little entertainer. Natalie Portman
During my grandma’s funeral, I looked over once and saw my mom crying, and I felt so bad for her. Kendra Wilkinson
There are so many cruel decisions parents have to make when their child dies. The funeral director requested a sheet for the coffin, and I sent the cozy flannel one, pale blue with happy snowmen, that had just been put away with the winter linens. Ann Hood
At my aunt’s funeral, I promised myself that I wouldn’t be bound by the belief that I’m supposed to stay in anything – whether it’s a relationship, a job, a house, or a circumstance – if it makes me miserable. She gave me the courage to find my own happiness. Jill Scott
As a kid, I would wake up, and there’d be a jazz funeral while I’m walking to school. And when I come home, you can find Rebirth band playing for a birthday party the same day. Trombone Shorty
It’s bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral. D. H. Lawrence
Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men. Quintus Ennius
There is something irresistibly funny about a funeral. More basically, I think the point is that beyond the deepest tragedy, there is laughter. Even in the midst of tragedy, there is always the possibility for it. Del Close
As soon as people see my face on a movie screen, they knew two things: first, I’m not going to get the girl, and second, I’ll get a cheap funeral before the picture is over. Lee Marvin
I checked myself out in that funeral parlour scene. I saw myself laughing, because there was a shot of Ed and I together and Mary was right in back of us. My head turned from the camera and I saw myself laughing, because Mary was absolutely brilliant in that thing. Gavin MacLeod
But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses. Jerome K. Jerome
I remember in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ I had to do a scene where I broke down. And before we filmed I spent like three hours imagining my mum’s funeral. Actually, she’s very much alive, happy and healthy. It was really horrible. Carey Mulligan
I used to sing at funeral homes for families that didn’t have a vocalist. I didn’t get paid. I needed to sing. Anita Baker
I was raised Catholic. Not just a little bit Catholic, like my wife, Catherine. When she was young, many Catholics in France already barely went to church, except for the big three: baptism, marriage, and funeral. And only the middle one was by choice. Frans de Waal
Dad’s funeral was standing room only; most in attendance were strangers to me. At the back, a lone Marine stood silently, then left. People told me he’d saved their life or helped them in their darkest hour. Ian Watson
When my wife’s sister passed away, Bernie Madoff came to the funeral. That was the type of individual that we all thought he was – a very caring individual. Norman Braman
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud. Walt Whitman
You can’t choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral. Marina Abramovic
Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father’s funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that where Alzheimer’s is concerned, we don’t have proof that stem-cell treatment would be effective. Patti Davis
I’m used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you’re asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn’t to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking. Eddie Marsan
There are probably about 50 comedians who would come to my 50th birthday party but I’m not sure how many of them would come to my funeral. Lee Mack
Dad was wiped from our lives. The day after he died, every photo of him disappeared from the house. It was as if he’d never existed. Me and my brothers weren’t even allowed to go to his funeral. His death was made absolute. Ant Middleton
Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. George Eliot
You know, when you break it down, ‘Broken Vows’ is, if anything, more about my parents divorce. And ‘Starting Over’ was written after I went to a funeral. Pegi Young
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. Mark Twain
My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening. Alice Roosevelt Longworth
The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral. Simon Hoggart
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. John Burroughs
Funeral by funeral, theory advances. Paul Samuelson
When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis. I went round the night my mother was lying in the kitchen, and I organised everything, from the undertaker to the funeral… I looked after everybody, I sorted it all out and I’ve done so ever since. Stuart Rose
A man is known by his works. That I have heard at many a funeral. Winslow Homer
The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him. Jimmy Breslin
Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral. Charles Lamb
I delayed my father’s funeral because of cricket. Virat Kohli
My own funeral, I’d like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white. Anne Rice
I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it. Erma Bombeck
My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket. Shirley Manson
At my funeral, someone had better touch up my lips and foundation before they close the casket. That’s not a beauty tip. It’s a formal request. Amanda Lepore
Everyone has to go to a funeral at some time and you need to be dark and sombre, and in a black tie. A. A. Gill
Love is the funeral of hearts. Ville Valo
Whenever people would speculate about the death of my grandfather it was always this very retributive thing. That they were going to picket his funeral after all the things that he had done to so many other people. That vindictiveness is obviously completely understandable. It would make perfect sense. Megan Phelps-Roper
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. George Eliot
I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral. Keith Richards
I am a born-again atheist, so there isn’t going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head. Felix Dennis
The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead. Samuel Goldwyn
I wanted to make a human monster. His name is Coffin Baby. The idea is based on a group of people from Pasadena whose names I can’t mention. His mother died and during the funeral, this baby came out of her in the coffin. Tobe Hooper
I remember when my father passed away, we drove the funeral procession past the bank so he could say one last goodbye. That’s how much the bank meant to my father. Alexi Giannoulias
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. Charles Baudelaire
I’ve had to write a column an hour after I’ve come back from a funeral. A deadline is a deadline, I mean, that was just what my job was. Laurie Notaro
It is like visiting one’s funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself. Harold Brodkey
In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment. George Ade
There will be no funeral! Before I get too old and ill, I’ll go to South America and live among the Pemon people and meditate. When the time is right, they can throw my body into the volcano. Brian Blessed
I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity. Billy Corgan
I’ve a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die. Maria Edgeworth
I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing. Chuck Palahniuk
I wanted to be at my sister’s funeral, but my family has always had a complicated dynamic. Nick Carter