A Selection of Funeral Quotes
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
- Buddha
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire,
men cannot live without a spiritual life.
- Buddha
On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
- Buddha
Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us.
- Anna Quindlen
We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of
our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with
things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
O Death! thou comest when I had thee least in mind!
- Unknown
Death makes no conquest of this conqueror,
For now he lives in fame though not in life.
- William Shakespeare
Heaven’s calculations don’t follow man’s calculations.
- Chinese proverb
Heaven will not disappoint kind-hearted persons.
- Chinese proverb
Heaven is the place where the donkey at last catches up with the carrot.
- Anonymous
Heaven, I’m in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak.
- Irving Berlin
Until we meet again, may God
Hold you in the palm of his hand.
-Irish Prayer
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal;
Love leaves a memory no one can steal
- Irish Tombstone
I am who I am today because I knew you.
- Anonymous
Say not in grief 'he is no more' but live in thankfulness that he was
- Hebrew proverb
Yesterday is a memory, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift, which is why it is called the present
- A.A. Milne
What the caterpillar perceives is the end, to the butterfly is just the beginning
- Buddhist saying
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well
- Buddist saying
Most people go to their graves, with their music still in them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Life is a sport...drink it up.
- Michael Jordan
The past is never dead, it is not even past.
- William Faulkner
To live in hearts we leave behind Is not to die.
- Hallowed Ground by Thomas Campbell
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