When composing a eulogy for a loved one, the most difficult part can be finding an apt starting point. Fortunately, many creative minds – authors, poets, musicians, and world leaders – have wrestled with life and death and have emerged with concise, insightful, and stirring funeral quotes to give us guidance. Here are some of the best and most useful eulogy and funeral quotes, presented with lovely imagery and elegant typography for your inspiration.
20 Funeral Quotes for a Eulogy
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
– Dr. Suess
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
– Abraham Lincoln
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
– Alan Sachs Perhaps they are not stars but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones shines down to let us know they are happy.
– Eskimo legend The passing of the years awakens in our hearts the cry for permanence.
– F. B. Meyer
(full quote here) Grief is the price we pay for love.
– Queen Elizabeth II Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
– Hans Christian Andersen We know you’d be with us today if heaven wasn’t so far away.
– Traditional / Anonymous What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us.
– Helen Keller If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
– Percy Bysshe Shelley Urns Northwest | Funeral & Memorial InspirationMemorial QuotesFollow On
I fall asleep in the full and certain hope that my slumber shall not be broken; and that, though I be all-forgetting, yet I shall not be all-forgotten, but continue that life in the thoughts and deeds of those I have loved.
– Samuel Butler Say not ‘Good-night’ but in some brighter clime, bid me ‘Good-morning.’
– Anna Laetitia Barbauld When words are most empty, tears are most apt.
– Max Lucado The grave is but a covered bridge, leading from light to light, through a brief darkness.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(alternate version here) The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
– Cicero The song is ended but the melody lingers on…
– Irving Berlin How strange this fear of death! We are never frightened at a sunset.
– George MacDonald When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me.’
– Erma Bombeck When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. When you die, you rejoice, and the world cries.
– Native American proverb To live is Christ and to die is gain.
– Philippians 1:21
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