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Quotes
Suitable for a Eulogy
Well chosen
eulogy quotes and the best funeral
poems
can add flavour and meaning to a eulogy.
Eulogies make a
funeral memorable and are a gift to everyone involved; the
speaker, the audience and the loved one who has
passed.
Eulogy templates
may also be a useful tool to
assist in the writing of a
eulogy.
Below are
a selection of quotes which could be included in a
eulogy.
For
those who seek to understand it,
death is a highly creative force. The
highest
spiritual values of life
can originate
from the thought and study of
death.(E.
Kubler-Ross)
Death
is
the great clarifier; it shows us what is important. (E. Kubler-Ross)
For
a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
(George
Santayana)
Good
men must die, but death cannot kill their names. (The
Bible)
Death
is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly
shedding its
cocoon. It is a transition to a higher
state of consciousness where you continue
to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow. (Elisabeth Kubler-Ross)
I’ve
told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky
to celebrate
that I graduated. For me, death is
a graduation. (E. Kubler-Ross)
We
sometimes congratulate
ourselves at the moment of waking from a
troubled
dream; it may be
so the
moment
after death. (N. Hawthorne)
Because
I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held
but just ourselves
and immortality. (Emily
Dickinson)
Death
comes to all. But great achievements build a monument
which shall
endure
until the sun
grows cold. (George Fabricius)
Death
leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one
can
steal. (Anon)
The
beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with
composure one
heavy
mischance after
another, not because he does not feel them, but because
he is a man of high and heroic temper. (Aristotle)
The
courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than
the courage of the
final moment; but
it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
(JF. Kennedy)
The
length of your education is less important than its breadth,
and the length
of your life is
less important than its depth. (Marilyn
vos Savant)
The
question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
(Joan Borysenko)
In
the great scheme of things, what matters is not how long
you live, but why
you live, what
you stand for, and what you are willing to die for. (Paul Watson)
We
inherit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted.....Each of
us contains within, this inheritance of soul. We are links
between
the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memorires
and future promises. (Edward Sellner)
No
one's death comes to pass without making some impression,
and those
close to the
deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become
richer
in their humanness. (Hermann
Broch)
Those
who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but
they die
young. (A. W. Pinero)
To
live in hearts we leave behind, is not to die.(Clyde
Campbell)
Yesterday
is a memory, tomorrow is a
mystery and today is a gift, which is why
it is called the present. (Anon)
What
the caterpillar perceives is the
end, to the butterfly is just the beginning.
(Anon)
Everything
that has a beginning has an
ending. Make your peace with that
and all will be well. (Buddist
saying)
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