Funeral Quotes
- “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
- “A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.” – E.M. Forster
- “Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.” – Rabindranath Tagore
- “The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.” – Irving Berlin
- “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.” – Ecclesiastes 3:1
- “The goal of all life is death.” – Sigmund Freud
- “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” – Mark Twain
- “A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” – Maya Angelou
- “The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- “Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.” – Ernest Hemingway
- “The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
- “Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and Immortality.” – Emily Dickinson
- “He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- “Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” – Isaac Asimov
- “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
- “Don’t be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.” – Richard Bach
- “Death is nature’s way of telling you to slow down.” – Dick Sharples
- “There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.” – Washington Irving
- “Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.” – George Eliot
- “What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.” – Albert Pike
