Funeral Memorial Quotes

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

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He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Sympathy, Missing You, Death

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For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

William Penn

Sympathy, Death, Memorial Day

Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2008). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

George S. Patton

Sympathy, Death, Wisdom

Speech at the Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, on June 07, 1945. "Patton, ordeal and triumph". Book by Ladislas Farago, 1963.

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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.

A. A. Milne

Love, Friendship, Birthday

"Winnie-the-Pooh: The House at Pooh Corner". Book by A. A. Milne, 1928.

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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Helen Keller

Inspirational, Life, Strength

Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

Thomas Campbell

Sympathy, Death, Memories

Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.169

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Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

Jack Kornfield

Wisdom, Peace, Buddhist

Twitter post from Jan 19, 2015

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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

Washington Irving

Strength, Sad, Sympathy

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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

Helen Keller

Death, Spiritual, Courage

Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I've had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral.

Lord Mountbatten

Death, Prayer, Thinking

In Richard Hough Mountbatten (1980) p. 3

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Life, Birthday

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.191, Harvard University Press

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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Emily Dickinson

Inspirational, Life, Wise

" 'Hope' is the thing with feathers" l. 1 (ca. 1862) SeeWoody Allen 20

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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

Quintus Ennius

Death, Men, Grieving

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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Robert Frost

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

William Wordsworth

Love, Inspirational, Life

"Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" l. 34 (1798)

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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.

William Wordsworth

Inspirational, Baby, Sleep

"Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 58 (1807)

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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Spring, Winter, Clouds

"Ode to the West Wind" l. 70 (1819)

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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Relationship, Happiness, Sympathy

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes: Or, The Insignificant Little Habits which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.58

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Some are bound to die young. By dying young a person stays young in people's memory. If he burns brightly before he dies, his brightness shines for all time.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Memories, People, Shining

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A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

Leonardo da Vinci

Motivational, Happy, Death

Codice Trivulziano 281

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Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare

Inspirational, Death, Running

'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

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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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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Charles Darwin

Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.145, Courier Corporation

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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Khalil Gibran

Sympathy, Death, Grief

Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.126, Lulu.com

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