A Selection of Quotes for Funerals

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

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

"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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