Celebrate Quote by Plutarch

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

The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite.

— Anonymous

When we ponder that vast throng who have died honorably defending home and hearth, we contemplate those immortal words, 'Greater love hath no man…

— Thomas S. Monson

We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to…

— Samuel Adams

Funerals should celebrate a life.

— Gavin Esler

“God is coming to intersect us in our funeral processions”

— Louie Giglio

How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead, The great man humbled, the haughty brought to dust?

— Conrad Aiken

It is indeed remarkable that the nature of our dealings with our fellowmen will determine, in large measure, our status in the kingdom of…

— Mark E. Petersen

When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, Edging slowly back and forth toward death?…

— Sophocles

We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living in the…

— Salman Rushdie

“For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettiness lurking in them, but, at bottom, all heartwoes, a…

— Herman Melville

“The Man of Sorrows is now anointed with the oil of gladness above his fellows. Returned in triumph from the overthrow of all his…

— Charles Spurgeon