Memorable Funeral Quotes And Poems

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"Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life."
Albert Einstein
"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal; love leaves a memory no one can steal."
From an Irish headstone
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome."
Isaac Asimov
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
Dr. Seuss
"A human life is a story told by God."
Hans Christian Andersen
"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death."
Leonardo da Vinci
"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
Mae West
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"Even the lost can be found."
Anonymous
"Do not stand at my grave and weep; I am not there; I do not sleep."
Mary Elizabeth Frye
"Life is a flower of which love is the honey."
Victor Hugo
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
Abraham Lincoln
"To grieve is to walk in the in-between, but the path is lit by memories."
Anonymous
"Tears are the gemstone of the heart, expressing love in the absence of words."
Anonymous
"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Life is eternal. Love is immortal. And death is only a horizon."
Rossiter Raymond
"When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure."
Unknown
"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."
Richard Bach
"The measure of our worth is how we choose to respond to loss."
Unknown
"Grief can be the garden of compassion."
Rumi
"When we lose a loved one here on earth, we gain an angel in heaven that watches over us."
Unknown
"Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened."
Dr. Seuss
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"Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower, we will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind."
William Wordsworth
"Death is nature’s way of telling you to slow down."
Dick Sharples
"Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day."
Mary Alice Ryan
"To live in the hearts of those we leave behind is not to die."
Thomas Campbell
"If love could have saved you, you would have lived forever."
Unknown
"Only a moment you stayed, but what an imprint your footprints have left on our hearts."
Dorothy Ferguson
"In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."
Abraham Lincoln
"Only in the darkness can you see the stars."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."
Winnie the Pooh
"The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude."
Thornton Wilder
"What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."
Helen Keller
"To live in the hearts of those we love is never to die."
Hazel E. McCallion
"Funeral blues: Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, prevent the dog from barking with a silent key."
W.H. Auden
"The remembrance of the good done by those we have loved is a wonderful consolation."
Victor Hugo
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"Goodbyes are not forever. They are not the end. It simply means I’ll miss you until we meet again."
Unknown
"Life is eternal, and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight."
R. W. Raymond
"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."
Tom Stoppard
"Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it."
Haruki Murakami
"The dance of life has ended, but the music plays on in our hearts."
Unknown
"Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color."
W.S. Merwin
"We do not remember days; we remember moments."
Cesare Pavese
"The road goes on forever and the story never ends."
Robert Jordan
"As long as we remember, they will never truly be gone."
Unknown
"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."
Helen Keller
"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die."
Thomas Campbell
"We are all broken, that's how the light gets in."
Ernest Hemingway
"Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves."
Rabindranath Tagore
"They are not gone who live in the hearts they left behind."
Billy Graham
"Do not mourn my passing, for I am not gone. I am with you still, a whisper in the wind."
Unknown
"Life is eternal and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight."
R. W. Emerson
"The song is ended but the melody lingers on."
Irving Berlin
"Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy."
Eskimo Proverb
"Every ending is a new beginning."
Unknown
"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."
Rumi
"Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity."
Pizza, Unknown
"Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon."
Author Unknown
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even heard but must be felt with the heart."
Helen Keller
"Sorrow is the lens through which we see the warmth and beauty of love."
Unknown
"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one."
Khalil Gibran
"Those who have died have never really left us."
Unknown
"The ones that love us never really leave us."
J.K. Rowling
"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."
Leo Buscaglia
"To be forgotten is worse than death."
Anonymous
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die."
Thomas Campbell
"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal."
From a headstone in Ireland
"For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity."
William Penn
"When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure."
Unknown
"The song is ended, but the melody lingers on."
Irving Berlin
"To weep is to make less the depth of grief."
William Shakespeare
"The best thing about memories is making them."
Unknown
"Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down."
Dick Sharples
"Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight."
Rossiter W. Raymond
"Grief is the price we pay for love."
Queen Elizabeth II
"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose; all that we love deeply becomes a part of us."
Helen Keller
"While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil."
John Taylor
"When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about ideas, language, even the phrase each other doesn't make any sense."
Rumi
"Do not mourn for me, for I shall not be there. I am always with you, in every step you take."
Unknown
"To die will be an awfully big adventure."
J.M. Barrie
"He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man."
Elie Wiesel
"There is no death, only a change of worlds."
Chief Seattle
"As long as there is love and remembrance, there is no true loss."
Unknown
"The greatest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude."
Thornton Wilder
"Life is but a stopping place, a pause in what's to be, a resting place along the road, to sweet eternity."
Helen Steiner Rice
"The bonds of love will never be broken, even in death."
Unknown
"It is not the length of life, but depth of life."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When a loved one becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure."
Unknown
"Death is simply the next great adventure."
J.K. Rowling
"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
"Nothing that is loved is ever lost."
George MacDonald
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