Inspirational Funeral Quotes #1
May 4
2 min read
Sometimes when you're writing a eulogy, sympathy card, or condolence email, and you're thinking of including an inspiring quote. We have lots of them for you. Here is the first instalment in a series of helpful quotes.
“We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
-Winston Churchill
“Life’s a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.”
- Wilson Mizner (American Playwright)
“I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared
for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”
- Winston Churchill (on his 75th birthday)
“I did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
Mark Twain, of a deceased politician
“Life is a voyage of discovery.”
John Stott
“Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”
- Lord of the Rings (movie)
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
- Albert Einstein
“But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow;
even darkness must pass.”
- Samwise Gamgee (Lord of the Rings)
“ Life isn't about getting and having, it's about giving and being.”
- Kevin Kruse
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,“ said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born
and the day you find out why.”
- Mark Twain
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
- Booker T. Washington
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep
to gain that which he cannot lose.”
- Jim Elliott (missionary)
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
but love leaves a memory no one can steal.”
- Unknown
“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”
- Langston Hughes
“Everyone dies but not everyone lives.”
- Andrew Sachs
“There is love in holding and there is love in letting go”
- Elizabeth Berg
“It’s not that I’m afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens”
- Woody Allen
“When the child dies in the man, the man dies.”
- Unknown
“The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.”
- Thornton Wilder
“Grief and love are conjoined, you don’t get one without the other.”
- Jandy Nelson
More quotes to come! :)
