Brave Quote by Maggie Rowe

Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every…

— Regina Brett

“A eulogy is a life lived with a loved one or friend condensed into a few moments relating poignant and witty stories about them…

— Stewart Stafford

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

— Ambrose Bierce

People feel guilty enough at funerals without having more guilt heaped on. I would prefer a bighearted preacher giving my eulogy, someone inclined to…

— Philip Gulley

Certainly it is one of our sweetest experiences that when we are touched by some noble affection or pure joy, we remember the dead…

— Helen Keller

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be…

— Plutarch

All good virtues and goodness itself will gradually find their true home in the heart in which love dwells, and all other qualities will…

— Anonymous

“Funerals are for the living, I have always believed, and the job of the eulogist is to acknowledge the enormity of the loss they…

— Joe Biden

“Death is a personal matter, arousing sorrow, despair, fervor, or dry-hearted philosophy. Funerals, on the other hand, are social functions. Imagine going to a…

— John Steinbeck

More people have a fear of speaking than a fear of death. So at a funeral, most people would want to be the person…

— Geoffrey Rush

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound…

— Luc de Clapiers

“Death does that:It makes everyone feel sentimental when in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón