20 Funeral Quotes for A Loved One’s Eulogy

When composing a eulogy for a loved one, the most difficult part can be finding an apt starting point.

Fortunately, many creative minds – authors, poets, musicians, and world leaders – have wrestled with life and death and have emerged with concise, insightful, and stirring funeral quotes to give us guidance.

Here are some of the best and most useful eulogy and funeral quotes, presented with lovely imagery and elegant typography for your inspiration.

20 Funeral Quotes for a Eulogy

Dr. Suess Funeral Quote

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.

– Dr. Suess

Abraham Lincoln Funeral Quote

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

– Abraham Lincoln

Funeral Quotes about Life and Death

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

– Alan Sachs

Eskimo Legend Funeral Quote

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

The passing of the years

The passing of the years awakens in our hearts the cry for permanence.

– F. B. Meyer

Queen Elizabeth Grief Quote

Grief is the price we pay for love.

– Queen Elizabeth II

Hans Christian Andersen Funeral Quote

Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

– Hans Christian Andersen

Funeral and Eulogy Quotes

We know you’d be with us today if heaven wasn’t so far away.

– Traditional / Anonymous

All that we love deeply becomes a part of us

What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose,  for all that we love deeply becomes part of us. 

– Helen Keller

Percy Bysshe Shelley Funeral Quote

If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

– Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Samuel Butler Funeral Quote

I fall asleep in the full and certain hope that my slumber shall not be broken; and that, though I be all-forgetting, yet I shall not be all-forgotten, but continue that life in the thoughts and deeds of those I have loved.

– Samuel Butler

Funeral Quotes

Say not ‘Good-night’ but in some brighter clime, bid me ‘Good-morning.’

– Anna Laetitia Barbauld

Funeral Quotes for a Loved One's Eulogy

When words are most empty, tears are most apt.

– Max Lucado

Funeral & Eulogy Quotes

The grave is but a covered bridge, leading from light to light, through a brief darkness.

– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Funeral & Eulogy Quotes

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

– Cicero

Irving Berlin quotes

The song is ended but the melody lingers on…

– Irving Berlin

George MacDonald Quotes

How strange this fear of death! We are never frightened at a sunset.

– George MacDonald

Funeral and Eulogy Quotes

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

Funeral Quotes

When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. When you die, you rejoice, and the world cries.

– Native American proverb

Funeral Quotes

To live is Christ and to die is gain.

– Philippians 1:21

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Daniel Szczesniak

Daniel has been working in the funeral industry since 2010, speaking directly to grieving families as they made funeral arrangements. He began researching and publishing funeral articles on this website as part of his role as product and marketing manager...

5 thoughts on “20 Funeral Quotes for A Loved One’s Eulogy”

  1. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing these Eulogy writing lessons and the wonderful quotes. Just reading some of them and seeing the beautiful artwork along with them eased my pain and, helped me write what was truly important.

  2. Lost my nephew aged 22 on Saturday afternoon,a lot of the verses gave me comfort,thankyou

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