Debbie Reynolds
Actress, Singer
"I think you should control yourself a little bit, so you can walk, and when you die, you can walk to your own funeral."
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Elijah Muhammad
Religious Leader
"A Muslim has five duties towards another Muslim; to return a salutation, visit the sick, follow funerals, accept an invitation and say 'God have mercy on you' when one sneezes."
J. K. Rowling
Novelist, Screenwriter
"Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march."
Bill Murray
Actor, Comedian
"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."
Richard Miller
Artist, Painter
"Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam."
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"There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy."
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"I don't suppose I can wear the flamingo tie," he said as he pulled on black socks. "It's a bit festive, given the occasion," I responded. "Can't wear it to the opera," said the Colonel, almost smiling. "Can't wear it to a funeral. Can't use it to hang myself. It's a bit useless, as ties go." I gave him a tie."
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"I foresee a great funeral contest over me."
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"Everyone dies but not everyone lives."
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"There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell."
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"The dead don't die. They look on and help."
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"Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral."
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"You can spend your whole life trying to be popular, but at the end of the day, the size of the crowd at your funeral will be largely dictated by the weather."
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"the time to hesitate is through no time to wallowin the mire Try now we can only lose and our love become a funeral pyre"
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"When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer."
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"It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral."
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"There's nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you're not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I'm the worst. I'm the worst at that."
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"Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral."
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"Whoever brought me here will have to take me home."
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"The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody who comes in out of the blue and says the truth. Everything else is table manners."
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"My grandfather had a wonderful funeral... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad."
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"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!"
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"Paraphrased: When Chuang Tzu was about to die, his disciples began planning a splendid funeral. However some disciples expressed concern that given a particular arrangement, birds and kites would eat his remains. Chuang Tzu replied, "Well, above ground I shall be eaten by crows and kites, below it by ants and worms. What do you have against birds?"
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"And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud."
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"The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal." "It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Nothing is dead; men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals... and there they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some strange new disguise."
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