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
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. John Burroughs
If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral. Gregory Nunn
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
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
You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather. Chuck Tanner