Browsing Topic Best Eulogy Quotes

We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

Life truly is a boomerang. What you give, you get.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

She pictured herself running from a hoard of ravenous zombies on a hot day eventually collapsing from heatstroke and getting devoured. Then she imagined Hal giving a rousing eulogy at her funeral explaining how Kendra’s death was a beautiful sacrifice allowing the noble zombies to live on delighting future generations by mindlessly trying to eat them. With her luck it could totally happen.

Say not ‘Good-night’ but in some brighter clime, bid me ‘Good-morning.’

God’s finger touched him, and he slept.

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

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

Society is purely and solely a continual series of exchanges… And the greatest eulogy we can give it, for exchange is an admirable transaction, in which two contracting parties always both gain; consequently, society is an uninterrupted succession of advantages, unceasingly renewed for all its members.

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.

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

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

He not busy being born is busy dying.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world, void of national bias, race, hate, and religious prejudice. There should be no indulgence in undue eulogy of the Negro. The case of the Negro is well taken care of when it is shown how he has far influenced the development of civilization.

I think when I dropped The Eulogy is when it became more [about] feedback because that’s when Pitchfork wanted to review it and things like that.

Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.

I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris.

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

My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue, an everlasting vision of the ever changing view.

The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.