Quotes About Eulogy

Death says a million words that the heart can't pen.

From behind the wheel, I learn the difference between a eulogy and an elegy, and discover which is more vital, in life and in death.

The only 'afterlife' is what other people remember of you.

We die once when the last breath leaves our bodies. We die a second time when the last person speaks our name.

There's this saying, 'May their memory be a blessing,' and she says that's what she hopes to be. A

Here lies a good fellow who spent his life while he had it.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

More people have a fear of speaking than a fear of death. So at a funeral, most people would want to be the person in the coffin rather than the person delivering the eulogy!

Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it.

Clara tried to give the eulogy, but couldn't speak. Her words stuck at the lump in her throat. And so Myrna took over, holding her hand while Clara stood beside her.

testament to a life well lived.

you seldom hear, at a funeral, a friend of the deceased saying, "What do you expect, she wore L'Heure Bleue

Speak up TODAY and say something positive. Even a tombstone will say something good about people when they are dead.

My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

To hear how much of a great human being you were — even if you really weren't — open your ears at your funeral.

Chip, she's gone, " and he said, "I thought I'd feel her looking down on us, but you're right. She's just gone

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

The best way to get praise is to die.

I do not think there is a person in this world who has been a more ardent admirer of him than I have been. His life and work have been an inspiration to the whole earth, shedding light in the dark places which so sadly needed light . His memory calls forth my most sincere homage, love, and esteem. {Burbank on the great Robert Ingersoll , whom he admired so much that he requested Ingersoll 's eulogy for his brother, Ebon Ingersoll, to be read at his own funeral}

The sixth and last eulogy was from Roderick, Hugo and Verna's oldest child. He wrote a three-page tribute to his father, and it was read by the reverend. Even Michael Geismar, a cold-blooded Presbyterian, finally succumbed to his emotions. The

funeral services took place with the casket open, so that the mourners were required to view the deceased while great things were said about him. It was an odd custom, one aimed at making the moment far more dramatic than necessary.