Quotes About Eulogy

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.

It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb.

Yes, Dan'l Webster is dead — or, at least, they buried him.

If I can, I will prevent my death from saying anything not first said by my life.

Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

A gravesite tells the history of a life, usually in whispers

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead, you're made for life.

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

A eulogy is no more than a summation of memories, and we will never forget you, because we cannot forget you, because we will miss you every day. To imagine a world without you in it is to imagine a world with a little less God in it, and yet, because God is not a diminishing resource, I cannot believe that.

Morrie went to his funeral. He came home depressed. "What a waste," he said. "All those people saying all those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of it.

When a colleague at Brandeis died suddenly of a heart attack, Morrie went to his funeral. He came home depressed. "What a waste," he said. "All those people saying those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of it".

What a waste.. All those people saying all those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of it.

Los muertos nunca acuden a su propio entierro.

La muerte tiene estas cosas: a todo el mundo le despierta la sesiblería. Frente a un ataúd, todos vemos sólo lo bueno o lo que queremos ver.

When we stand in front of a coffin, we see only what is good, or what we want to see.

La muerte tiene estas cosas: a todo el mundo lo despierta la sensiblería. Frente a un ataúd, todos vemos sólo lo bueno o lo que queremos ver.

I'm always relieved when someone delivers a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

If you hear I'm dead, don't come to my funeral.

And say to all the world, "This was a man!"

I want the people I love to get up and speak about me, and even if you cry it'll be OK. I want you to say honest things.

I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for adulation is lacking.