Funeral Quotes
that Inspire
Sometimes, the wise and lyrical words of others who have been here before, can help you put your own thoughts and feelings into perspective.
Quotes
that inspire
“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today”
– James Dean
“After the game, the king and the Pawn go into the same box.”
– Italian saying
“Death plucks my ear and says, “live – I’m coming.”
– Virgil
“Don’t die with your music still inside you”
– Wayne Dyer
“To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable”
– Erich Fromm
“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it”
– W.M. Lewis
“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass; it’s about learning to dance in the rain”
– Author Unknown
“We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong – the amount of work is the same”
– Carlos Castanada
“The best portion of a good man’s life is his little nameless unrememberd acts of kindness and of love”
– William Wordsworth
“Life is a song – sing it. Life is a game – play it. Life is a challenge – meet it. Life is a dream – realise it. Life is a sacrifice – offer it. Life is love – enjoy it”
– Sai Baba
“Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another”
– Ernest Hemingway
“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
“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow up to be”
– J.K. Rowling
“The idea is not to live forever but to create something that will”
– Andy Warhol
“If death is inevitable, one should try to die well.”
– Mary Jo Putney
“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
– Anais Nin
“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”
– Langston Hughes
“In the blink of an eye, everything can change. So forgive often and love with all your heart. You may never not have that chance again.”
– Author Unknown
“A person’s true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.”
– Nazr Mohammed
“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me.”
– Erma Bombeck
“A new life begins for us with every second. Let us go forward joyously to meet it. We must press on, whether we will or not, and we shall walk better with our eyes before us than with them ever case behind.”
– Jerome K. Jerome
“A person’s true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.”
– Mohammed
“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”
– Nelson Henderson
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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, all come from earth, and to earth all return.
Ashes to ashes,
dust to dust,
all come from earth,
and to earth all return.