271 Quotes About Funeral

Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset?

*Live fast, die young, and, leave a good looking corpse.* is dumb. When dead, looks matters not. (Furthermore, the corpse will only look good for a day, or, twelve.)

Life is a lie. We should fear it more than death. We live fearful of dying, terrified of the unknown … when, really, every truth is in our last breath.

Funerals are a constant reminder that chasing most of the things we are chasing is an embarrassing way to spend a portion of our lives.

Death frees us from even ourselves.

Death is the release of an organism from the prison of life.

We are surprised not by someone’s death but by its cause or date.

Losing some faculties is worse than losing your life.

The worst that can happen to anyone will happen to everyone.