30+ Funeral Quotes

If you are attending a funeral ceremony, sending funeral flowers is one of the most common ways to express your deepest condolences. Usually, the flowers are accompanied with a sympathy card stating words of support and sympathy and letting the family know who the flowers are from.

Expressing yourself at such a sad occasion can be a struggle.

If you prefer to use words of someone else, these funeral quotes might help you craft the perfect message.

30+ Funeral Quotes

1. 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
2. Death is more universal than life; everyone dies, but not everyone lives.  Alan Sachs
3. What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose,  for all that we love deeply becomes part of us.  Helen Keller
4. What the caterpillar perceives is the end, to the butterfly is just the beginning.  Buddhist saying
5. Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. Dr. Suess
6. Perhaps the secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company. Rachel Naomi Remen
7. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, not touched. But are felt in the heart. By Helen Keller
8. This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love;  the more they give, the more they possess. Rainer Maria Rilke
9. In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. By Abraham Lincoln
10. The passing of the years awakens in our hearts the cry for permanence.  F. B. Meyer
11. It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow up to be. By J.K. Rowling
12. They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies. By William Penn
13. We know you’d be with us today if heaven wasn’t so far away.  Traditional / Anonymous
14. In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. By Robert Frost
15. Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love. By Terri Guillemets
16. In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.  Abraham Lincoln
17. Grief is the price we pay for love.  Queen Elizabeth II
18. There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. By Henry Wordsworth
19. Say not in grief that ‘he is no more’ but live in thankfulness that he was. Old Hebrew proverb
20. Most people go to their graves, with their music still in them.  Oliver Wendell Holmes
21. Heaven’s calculations don’t follow man’s calculations. Chinese proverb
22. Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand. By Patti Smith
23. The moon and the year travel and pass away: also the day, also the wind. Also, the flesh passes away to the place of its quietness. A Mayan poem
24. Most people go to their graves, with their music still in them.  Oliver Wendell Holmes
25. We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. by Kenji Miyazawa
26. We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give. By Winston Churchill
27. Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us.  Anna Quindlen
28. We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. Anton Chekov
29. The past is never dead, it is not even past.  William Faulkner
30. To live in the hearts of those we leave behind is not to die. Thomas Campbel
31. Yesterday is a memory, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift, which is why it is called the present. Anonymous
32. Be brave. Even if you’re not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference. Unknown
33. The song is ended, but the melody lingers on. Irving Berlin
34. Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.  Hans Christian Andersen

sources: lastingpost.com, loveliveson.com, creative-funeral-ideas.com

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