Perhaps they are not stars but rather openings in Heaven where the love of our lost ones shines down to let us know they are happy
Popular - Famous Death And Funeral Quotes
All the quotes in this collection (depending upon circumstances) are suitable to be used as part of a eulogy speech.
| I will not insult you by trying to tell you that one day you will forget. I know as well as you that you will not. But, at least, in time you will not remember as fiercely as you do now - and I pray that that time may be soon. From Ross By Terence Rattigan Death - the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening. Walter Scott |
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It's what you do, unthinking, that makes the quick tear start; the tear may be forgotten.... but the hurt stays in the heart. Ella Higginson When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. When you die, you rejoice, and the world cries. Buddhist Saying |
| The song is ended, but the melody lingers on... Irving Berlin The first breath is the beginning of death. Thomas Fuller |
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein |
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Perhaps they are not stars but rather openings in Heaven where the love of our lost ones shines down to let us know they are happy Eskimo Legend |
Your end, which is endless, is as a snowflake dissolving in the pure air. Buddhist Saying |
Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life. Rodger Rosenblatt |
| As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. Leonardo DaVinci |
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. Joseph Stalin |
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| Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. Helen Keller |
Death is not the end Death can never be the end. Death is the road. Life is the traveller. The Soul is the Guide Our mind thinks of death. Our heart thinks of life Our soul thinks of Immortality. Sri Chinmoy |
Say not in grief that she is no more but say in thankfulness that she was A death is not the extinguishing of a light, but the putting out of the lamp because the dawn has come. Rabindranath Tagore |
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People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in; their true beauty is revealed only if there light is from within. Elizabeth Kubler Ross We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give Winston Churchill |
The boundaries between life and death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where one ends and where the other begins? Edgar Allen Poe In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost |
| 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. William Shakespeare Scene 2-Romeo and Juliet |
"I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral" Admiral Lord Mountbatten Men fear death as children fear to go into the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Francis Bacon |
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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good. William Mitford I know death has ten thousand several doors |
I have seen death too often to believe in death, It is not an ending, but a withdrawal. As one who finishes a long journey. Stills the motor. Turns off the lights Steps from the car And walks up the path To the home that awaits him Unknown |
It is not length of life, but depth of life. Emerson Ralph Waldo 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 |
| Say not in grief he is no more - but live in thankfulness that he was Hebrew Proverb |
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It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be. J.K. Rowling |
| I fall asleep in the full and certain hope That my slumber shall not be broken; And that, though I be all-forgetting, Yet shall I not be all-forgotten, But continue that life in the thoughts and deeds of those I have loved. Samuel Butler Say not ‘Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me ‘Good-morning.' Anna Laetitia Barbauld |
Some are bound to die young By dying young a person stays young in people's memory. If he burns brightly before he dies, his brightness shines for all time Unknown Sometimes, when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated Allphonse de Lamartine |
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one. Seneca Grief is the price we pay for love Queen Elizabeth II Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given. Deepak Chopra |
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Yesterday is a memory, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift, which is why it is called the present. What the caterpillar perceives is the end; to the butterfly is just the beginning. Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well Buddhist Saying |
Cowards die many times before their deaths: The valiant never taste of death but once. William Shakespeare Death is the veil which those who live call life: They sleep, and it is lifted. Percy Blysshe Shelley |
I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live. Martin Luther King Jr George Harrison's passing was really sad, but it does make the afterlife seem much more attractive. Michael Palin |
Who knows when the end is reached? Death may be the beginning of life. How do I know that love of life is not a delusion after all? How do I know that he who dreads to die is as a child who has lost the way and cannot find his way home? How do I know that the dead repent of having previously clung to life? Chuang Tse |
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 |
| It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding. From The Lion King |
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 |
| In the godforsaken, obscene quicksand of life, there is a deafening alleluia rising from the souls of those who weep, and of those who weep with those who weep. If you watch, you will see The hand of God putting the stars back in their skies one by one. Ann Weems |
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. Helen Keller 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 |
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