Meaningful And Touching Funeral Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things.”
– Homer

“Until we meet again, may God
Hold you in the palm of his hand.”
– Irish Prayer

“The song is ended, but the melody lingers on…”
– Irving Berlin

“While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.”
– J. Taylor

“The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth,
must be a tremendous event.”
– J.B. Priestley

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
– J.K. Rowling

“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”
– J.K. Rowling

“Life let us cherish, while yet the taper glows,
And the fresh flow’ret pluck ere it close;
Why are we fond of toil and care?
Why choose the rankling thorn to wear?”
– J.M. Usteri

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
– Jack Lemmon

“If God hath made this world so fair,
Where sin and death abound,
How beautiful beyond compare
Will paradise be found!”
– James Montgomery

“Until the day of his death, no man can be
sure of his courage”
– Jean Anouilh

“Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved.”
– Jean Cameron

“I’d been told of all the things you’re meant
to feel when your father dies.
Sudden freedom, growing up, the end of dependence, the step into the sunlight when
no one is taller than you and you’re in no one’s shadow. I know what I felt.
Lonely.”
– John Mortimer

“I look at life as a gift of God.
Now that he wants it back
I have no right to complain.”
– Joyce Cary

“If I should go before the rest of you
Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone,
Nor when I’m gone speak in a Sunday voice
But be the usual selves that I have known.
Weep if you must,
Parting is hell,
But life goes on,
So sing as well.”
– Joyce Grenfell

“There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.”
– Joyce Grenfell

“As a well spent day brings happy sleep,
so life well used brings happy death. ”
– Leonardo Da Vinci

“The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.”
– Lucan

“Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man’s growth as life itself.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“I sat in my desolation
Withdrawn from all around,
Feeling my life was a ruin, a failure.
I was empty inside with the utter collapse of my being.
I did not care anymore for living or dying.
I was alone in my distress and desolation.
But as I sat sadly on the ground,
The sun reached out his hand to me and touched my face. And so my healing began.”
– Marjorie Pizer

“Perhaps passing through the gates of death
is like passing quietly through the gate
in a pasture fence. On the other side,
you keep walking, without the need to
look back. No shock, no drama, just the
lifting of a plank or two in a simple
wooden gate in a clearing.
Neither pain, nor floods of light, nor great voices, but just the silent crossing of a meadow. ”
– Mark Helprin

“If we have been pleased with life,
we should not be displeased with death,
since it comes from the hand
of the same master.”
– Michelangelo

“A person’s true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.”
– Mohammed

“We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream;
it may be so the moment after death.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne

“If death could be seen as a beautiful
clear lake, refreshing and buoyant,
then when a consciousness moves towards
its exit from a body there would be that
delightful plunge and it would simply swim away.”
– Pat Rodegast

“I don’t believe in death
Who comes in silent stealth
He robs us only of a breath
Not of a lifetime’s wealth
I don’t believe the tomb
Imprisons us in earth
It’s but another loving womb
Preparing our new birth
I do believe in life
Empowered from above
Till freed from stress and worldly strife
We soar through realms above
I do believe that then
In joy that never ends
We’ll meet all those we’ve loved, again
And celebrate our friends.”
– Pauline Webb

“Death is the veil which those who live call life:
They sleep, and it is lifted.”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Good men must die, but death can not kill their names.”
– Proverb

“As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.”
– Pubililus Syrus

“Grief is the price we pay for love.”
– Queen Elizabeth II

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