Life and death goes hand in hand like creation and destruction. The one who has taken birth will leave the world one day, maybe sooner or later than other people. But the people who are left behind, the people who love the deceased, the family and friends are left with pain and memories. And this is the time when we have to support those people. So here we have brought some Funeral Quotes and Sayings, so send these to the family and friends that may reduce their pain to some extent and make them feel a bit better, knowing that you are with them.
Funeral is a time when everyone has so many emotions and things going on in their minds, but they always fall short of words. The one who has lost their loved one seek peace and comfort and their closed ones seek a way to provide peace and comfort. The best way to do so is to say goodbye to the departed one with love in the hearts with a promise of meeting again someday in some other dimension or world. Because truly, hope, positivity and support are the most important things to move on from any pain or situation in life.
So here are some Funeral Quotes and Sayings that you can look up to find some words in these tough times, read on and share:
Funeral Quotes
- “The boundaries between life and death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where one ends and where the other begins?” – Edgar Allan Poe
- “It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.” – John Steinbeck
- “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. When you die, you rejoice, and the world cries.” – Native American proverb
- “For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.” – Khalil Gibran
- “Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.” – Ernest Hemingway
- “And they all said, ‘I’m sorry for your loss,’ as if you were someone who could ever be taken from me.” – Robert Brault
- “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
- “This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
- “Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.” – Langston Hughes
- “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, not touched.
But are felt in the heart.” – Helen Keller - “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost
- “No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.” – Terry Pratchett
- “Life has to end. Love doesn’t.” – Mitch Albom
- “They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.” – William Penn
- “How strange this fear of death! We are never frightened at a sunset.” – George MacDonald
- “The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.” – Cicero
- “The journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
- “I’ll remember you. When I’ve forgotten all the rest. You to me were true. You to me were the best.” – Bob Dylan
- “The comfort of having a friend may be taken away but not that of having had one.” – Seneca
- “Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon, and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.” – Rossiter Worthington Raymond
- “As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well-used brings happy death.” – Leonardo Da Vinci
- “A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” – Maya Angelou
- “I found that I missed him the more he was absent from my life, and the more I missed him, the more I loved him.” – Donna Lynn Hope
- “And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” – Khalil Gibran
- “If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.” – James O’Barr
- “When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.” – Erma Bombeck
- “Perhaps they are not stars but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones shines down to let us know they are happy.” – Eskimo legend
- “How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?” – Carson McCullers
- “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou
- “If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.” – A. A. Milne
- “It’s hard to turn the page when you know someone won’t be in the next chapter, but the story must go on.” – Thomas Wilder
- “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends leave footprints in your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – Irish proverb
- “To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.” – Samuel Butler
- “A death is not the extinguishing of a light, but the putting out of the lamp because the dawn has come.” – Rabindranath Tagore
- “The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “A new life begins for us with every second. Let us go forward joyously to meet it. We must press on, whether we will or not, and we shall walk better with our eyes before us than with them ever case behind.” – Jerome K. Jerome
- “The song is ended, but the melody lingers on…” – Irving Berlin
- “Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.” – Alan Sachs
- “Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.” – Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
- “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.” – Rumi
- “Heaven will not disappoint kind-hearted persons.” – Chinese Proverb
- “For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.” – William Penn
- “As is a tale, so is a life: Not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.” – Seneca
- “Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there.” – Ray Bradbury
- “The best portion of a good man’s life is his little nameless unrememberd acts of kindness and of love.” – William Wordsworth
- “Lives are like rivers: eventually they go where they must. Not where we want them to.” – Richard Russo
- “To me, you were more than just a person. You were a place where I finally felt at home.” – Denice Envail
- Every life is noted and is cherished, and nothing loved is ever lost or perished.” – Madeleine L’engle
Conclusion
As humans, the best we can do to mitigate someone’s pain is to stay beside them, in the moments of sadness. So be with the people who have lost someone and keep spreading positivity.
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