When you die I bet you want real life, pure real life…

“And when you die I bet that you want real life, pure real life, eulogies that are unpoetic and messy, smeared with tears and…

— Kate Hattemer

“Marshall wished he knew what to call her, wished he could memorialize her somehow. There was dignity in eulogies, in little ribbons tied to…

— Aaron Dries

“I think eulogies are wasted on the dead. It’s the living who need to hear kind words spoken about them.”

— Jarod Kintz

I'm of an age when if I started to do eulogies, I'd be doing nothing else. You don't want to be remembered? I don't…

— Garrison Keillor

Nothing can save you from hate, empty all your treasures and give it to people and one out of the multitudes will curse you,…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Have you noticed that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?

— Arianna Huffington

Eulogies never talk about what was on your resume. Be remembered for how you made people feel and your passions

— Arianna Huffington

Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?

— Arianna Huffington

“If I die tomorrow, you aren't allowed to say my life was cut short at age 25. I did more in those years than…

— Alisa Mullen

“it is very telling what we don’t hear in eulogies. We almost never hear things like: “The crowning achievement of his life was when…

— Arianna Huffington

“True artists do not create to fish for compliments and praises. They create to express the love they have for their craft.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

People say, "How would you like to be remembered?" I don't want to be remembered. Gimme a break. What I want is to hear…

— Jerry Lewis

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order,…

— Peggy Noonan