#funeral

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car. ↗

— Steven Wright

#clown #died #friend #friends #funeral

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

#bank #could #drove #father #funeral

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers. ↗

— Grace Hansen

#except #flowers #funeral #get #just

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

#am #bragging #came #come #funeral

The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral. ↗

— Simon Hoggart

#dinner party #formal #funeral #imperial #japanese

In the emptiness that was all around me, I noticed an old tennis ball in the plantings; I picked it up and dropped it at Zoë’s feet. I didn’t know what I was doing, if I had a specific intention. Was I trying to lighten the mood? I don’t know, but I felt I had to do something. So there the ball bounced to a stop at her bare feet. She looked down at the ball but did nothing with it. Maxwell noticed what I had done, and he noticed Zoë’s lack of reaction. He picked up the ball and, with a mighty heave, threw it so far into the woods behind the house that I lost sight of it and could only barely hear it crash through the leaves of bushes on its way back to earth. It was quite an impressive toss, the pale tennis ball sailing through the air against the clear blue sky. What amount of psychic pain was expended on that ball, I had no idea. ↗

— Garth Stein

#funeral #pain #art

I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#breathes #dead #funerals #go #i

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#even #funeral #men #most #mourner

Funeral by funeral, theory advances. ↗

— Paul Samuelson

#funeral #theory

I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#anything #away #bar #before #book