Eulogy Quotes

Eulogy refers to a speech given when attending a funeral ceremony of beloved ones. It is basically a funeral speech that admires a person who has recently expired. The audience during funeral is in great agony for having lost their loved one. So, your eulogy should actually help to reduce their grief.

I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.
- Woody Allen

Death is inevitable, inescapable that continues to haunt the strongest of minds.
- Author Unknown

Death is a debt we all must pay.
- Euripides

Death is life's way of telling you you're fired.
- Author Unknown

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
- Euripides

Say not in grief: "He is no more", but live in thankfulness that he was.
- Hebrew Proverb

Remember sadness is always temporary. This, too, shall pass.
- Chuck T. Falcon

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
- Stewart Alsop

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.
- Author Unknown

People living deeply have no fear of death.
- Anais Nin

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
- Mark Twain

God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled.
- Author Unknown

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
- David Sarnoff

The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.
- Ernest Becker

Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow.
- E. Kubler-Ross

Twilight and the evening bell
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell
When I Embark.
- Tennyson


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

May the god of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
- The Bible

Choosing the right words when giving a funeral speech is essential to comfort the family members of the departed. A funeral speech complemented with eulogy quotes can certainly make the condolences more meaningful.