Eulogy Quotes

• Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Spiritual, Emotional

  "Because I could not stop for death" l. 1 (ca. 1862)

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

  Michelangelo

  Artist, Hands, Remembrance

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• God's finger touched him, and he slept.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Grieving, Funeral

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 85

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• Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

  Isaac Asimov

  Sympathy, Death, Depressing

  Isaac Asimov (1988). “Fantastic voyage II: destination brain”

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• Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

  Rumi

  Home, Funeral, Headstone

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.28, Penguin UK

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• Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.

  Mary Elizabeth Frye

  Death, Lost Love, Losing A Loved One

  "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep" l. 15 (1932).

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• Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Everyone dies but not everyone lives.

  William Wallace

  Death, Funeral, Remembrance

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• Grief is the price we pay for love.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Life, Sympathy, Grief

  "Happy birthday, Queen Elizabeth. The world needs you now more than ever" by Lee Cohen, www.foxnews.com. April 21, 2016.

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• Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

  Robert Kennedy

  Courage, Yield, Quality

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Happiness, Inner Peace, Mind

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• Your wealth is where your friends are

  Plautus

  Friendship, Wealth, Prosperity

  Plautus (2013). “Truculentus: The Fierce One”, p.64, Hackett Publishing

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• A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

  Charles Darwin

  Friendship, Wisdom, Men

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.24, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• 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

  Death, Prayer, Fall

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited”, p.260, Courier Dover Publications

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• 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.

  Elton John

  Music, Moving, Circles

  Song: Circle Of Life 2

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• Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Kindness

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2016). “Vanity Fair (Diversion Classics)”, p.243, Diversion Books

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• This day and your life are God's gift to you - so give thanks and be joyful always.

  James M. Beggs

  Giving, Thanks, Joyful

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• If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

  Muhammad Ali

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

  Twitter post from Dec 29, 2016

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• Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.

  Christian Dior

  Birthday, Women, Race

  1955 In Collier's Magazine, 10 Jun.

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• Freindshipp is beyond all relations of flesh and blood, because it is less materiall.

  John Evelyn

  Friendship, Patience, Real

  "The Life of Mrs. Godolphin" by John Evelyn, London: William Pickering, (pp. 20-21), 1847.

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• Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Death, People, Dying

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• A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Relationship, Patience

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Friendship'.

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• How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

  William Rotsler

  Friendship, Real, Wonderful

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• One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Loneliness, Angel, Being Alone

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

  A. A. Milne

  Best Friend, Goodbye, Thinking Of You

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