Memorial Quotes -- Funeral Quotes

Funeral Quotes are a good way to help communicate your emotions and offer comfort to greiving friends and family members during the time of loss.  There are several Internet sites that have a variety of categorized memorial quotes and sayings.  Listed below are a few samples of funeral quotes and sayings.

Also See:
Funeral Readings
Funeral Scripture Verses
Funeral Poems
Fuenral Songs

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live you life in a manner so that when you die the world cries and you rejoice. (Native American Proverb)

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.(A. Sachs)

The grave is but a covered bridge, leading from light to light, through a brief darkness. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

I’ve told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation. (Elisabeth Kubler-Ross)

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. (Anon)

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.(Clyde Campbell)

Yesterday is a memory, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift, which is why it is
called the present. (Anon)

What the caterpillar perceives is the end, to the butterfly is just the beginning. (Anon)

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. (Winnie the Pooh)

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

Death ends a life, not a relationship. (Jack Lemmon)

Every man dies. Not every man really lives. (William Wallace)

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.
(Emily Dickenson)