Where a blood relation sobs, a...

Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

~Mark Twain~

The only reason I might go to ...

The only reason I might go to the funeral is to make absolutely sure that he's dead.

~Source Unknown~

The chief mourner does not alw...

The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Some people never head a proce...

Some people never head a procession until they're dead.

~Source Unknown~

On a day of burial there is no...

On a day of burial there is no perspective -- for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was -- to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.

~Antoine de Saint-Exupery~

I did not attend his funeral; ...

I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it. [About a politician who had recently died]

~Mark Twain~

Funeral pomp is more for the v...

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld~

As grand and griefless as a ri...

As grand and griefless as a rich man's funeral.

~Sidney Thompson Dobell~

A funeral is a pageant whereby...

A funeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker.

~Ambrose Gwinett Bierce~

A funeral eulogy is a belated ...

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

~Irvin S. Cobb~