Quotes on Funeral Memorial

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I've had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral.

The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.

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

Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.