A Heartfelt Collection of Inspirational Funeral Quotes

"Grief is the price we pay for love."

- Queen Elizabeth II

"We are all stories in the end, remembered by the adventures we had, the achievements we made, and the people we loved. So make sure your story is a good one."

- Nishan Panwar

"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me."

- Jim Valvano

"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal."

- From a headstone in Ireland

"Say not in grief that she is no more, but say in thankfulness that she was. A death is not the extinguishing of a light but the putting out of the lamp because the dawn has come."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever."

- J.K. Rowling

"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

"What we have once enjoyed, we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."

- Helen Keller

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They speak more eloquently than 10,000 tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and unspeakable love."

- Washington Irving

"My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."

- Clarence Budington Kelland

"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

"Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."

- Richard Bach

""Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.""

- Mark Twain

""When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.""

- Mitch Albom

"As is a tale, so is a life: Not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters."

- Seneca

"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

"Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity."

- Terri Guillemets

"You don't lose the people you love, you carry them with you in your heart."

- Mitch Albom

"Love is how often you stay alive, even after you are gone."

- Mitch Albom

"As long as we live, they too will live; for they are now a part of us; as we remember them."

- Jewish Prayer

"If ever there is a tomorrow when we're not together, there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart, I'll always be with you."

- Winnie the Pooh

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."

- Dr. Seuss

"Life has to end. Love doesn’t."

- Mitch Albom

"There are special people in our lives who never leave us, even after they are gone."

- D. Morgan

"People living deeply have no fear of death."

- Anais Nin

"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die."

- Thomas Campbell

"There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."

- Winnie the Pooh

"No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away."

- Terry Pratchett

"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

- Marcel Proust

"A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again."

- Maya Angelou

"In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

"They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies."

- William Penn

"Every life is noted and is cherished, and nothing loved is ever lost or perished."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments but what is woven into the lives of others."

- Thucydides

"Say not in grief that he is no more but live in thankfulness that he was."

- Hebrew Proverb

"Those we love never truly leave us. There are things that death cannot touch."

- Jack Thorne

"Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. For those who love with heart and soul, there is no separation."

- Rumi

"If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever."

- Winnie the Pooh

"The ones that love us never really leave us."

- Sirius Black

"No one is ever really gone, as long as they took the time to leave us with fond memories."

- Chris Sorensen

"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there; I do not sleep."

- Mary Elizabeth Frye

"What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us."

- Helen Keller

"Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone."

- Mitch Albom

"Grief changes shape, but it never ends."

- Keanu Reeves

"Death ends a life, not a relationship."

- Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

"Death leaves a void that no one can heal, but love leaves memories that no one can steal."

- Irish proverb

"Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality."

- Emily Dickinson

""Grief is not a disorder, a disease or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.""

- Earl Grollman

"Grief is the price we pay for loving someone."

- Dr. Colin Murray Parkes

"A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. In the hour of need, when all else fails, we remember him upon whose knees we sat when children."

- éMile Gaboriau

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends leave footprints in your heart."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"There is no expiration date on the love between a father and his child."

- Jennifer Williamson

"When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him lies on the paths of men."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone."

- John Steinbeck

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my own garden forever."

- Alfred Jennyon

"How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?"

- Carson McCullers

"To her, the name of father was another name for love."

- Fanny Fern

"Only a moment you stayed but what an imprint your footprints have left on our hearts."

- Dorothy Ferguson

"God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December."

- J.M. Barrie

"Life is a song—sing it. Life is a game—play it. Life is a challenge—meet it. Life is a dream—realise it. Life is a sacrifice—offer it. Life is love—enjoy it."

- Sai Baba

"Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid."

- Langston Hughes

"Sometimes, when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated."

- Alphonse de Lamartine

"Remembering is an act of resurrection, each repetition a vital layer of mourning, in memory of those we are sure to meet again."

- Nancy Cobb

"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well-used brings happy death."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"The connections we make in the course of life—maybe that’s what heaven is."

- Fred Rogers

"How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."

- A. A. Milne

"Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened."

- Dr. Seuss

"The comfort of having a friend may be taken away but not that of having had one."

- Seneca

"Wherever a beautiful soul has been, there is a trail of beautiful memories."

- Ronald Reagan

"You are gone, but thank you for all these soft, sweet things you left behind. In my home, in my head, in my heart."

- Nikita Gill

"She made broken look beautiful and strong look invincible. She walked with the universe on her shoulders and made it look like a pair of wings."

- Ariana Dancu

"There is something about losing a mother that is permanent and inexpressible—a wound that will never quite heal."

- Susan Wiggs

"A person’s true wealth is the good he or she does in the world."

- Nazr Mohammed

"When he shall die take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun."

- William Shakespeare

"This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments—and you get the tears at the end, too."

- Harlan Coben

"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 W. Raymond

"Let no one weep for me or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men."

- Quintus Ennius

"The journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"The darker the night, the brighter the stars. The deeper the grief, the closer to God."

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"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

"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"We do not remember days, we remember moments."

- Cesare Pavese

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart."

- Helen Keller

"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."

- A.A. Milne

"I'll remember you. When I've forgotten all the rest. You to me were true. You to me were the best."

- Bob Dylan

"Real love stories never have endings."

- Richard Bach

"You were the love that made all the others irrelevant."

- Rupi Kaur

"Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy."

- Eskimo Proverb

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."

- Nelson Henderson

""Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.""

- C.S. Lewis

"The song is ended, but the melody lingers on."

- Irving Berlin

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power."

- Washington Irving

"Grief is the garden of compassion."

- Rumi

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."

- Helen Keller

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart."

- José N. Harris

"The only cure for grief is to grieve."

- Earl Grollman

"The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them."

- Czesław Miłosz

"Memories are the treasures that we keep locked deep within the storehouse of our souls."

- Becky Aligada

"Say not in grief ‘he is no more’ but in thankfulness that he was."

- Hebrew Proverb

"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality."

- Emily Dickinson

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart."

- Helen Keller

"I can’t think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral."

- Admiral Lord Mountbatten

"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

"Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can."

- Henry Drummond

"To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead."

- Samuel Butler

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

- Isaac Asimov

"If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words they’re gone. They’ll come back."

- Prince

"Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything."

- C.S. Lewis

"Love never fails."

- 1 Corinthians 13:8

"Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them."

- Bob Dylan

"In the garden of memory, in the palace of dreams…that is where you and I shall meet."

- Alice Through the Looking Glass

"Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you."

- John Green

"There is no grief like the grief that does not speak."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."

- C.S. Lewis

"Grieving doesn’t make you imperfect. It makes you human."

- Sarah Dessen

"Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place."

- Sarah Dessen

"When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left."

- Sufi

""In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.""

- Maya Angelou

""Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.""

- Joan Crawford

""If not for you, my sky would fall. Rain would gather, too. Without your love, I’d be nowhere at all. I’d be lost, if not for you.""

- Bob Dylan

""Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.""

- Elaine Davis

""One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.""

- Paulo Coelho

""You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.""

- Arthur Conan Doyle, "White Company"

""Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.""

- Ram Gehlot

""Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.""

- Robert A. Heinlein

""Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get—only with what you are expecting to give—which is everything.""

- Katharine Hepburn

""They say love is the best investment; the more you give, the more you get in return.""

- Audrey Hepburn

""I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.""

- The Fault in Our Stars

""When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.""

- Jess C. Scott

""The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.""

- Julia Child

""Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.""

- Albert Einstein

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."

- Richard Bach

""I intend to live forever or die trying.""

- Groucho Marx

"Lives are like rivers: eventually they go where they must. Not where we want them to."

- Richard Russo

""I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.""

- Woody Allen

"There is no death, only a change of worlds."

- Chief Seattle

"Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life."

- Anne Roiphe

"Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away."

- V.C. Andrews

""The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.""

- Jacques Cousteau

""The earth has music for those who listen.""

- George Santayana

""The poetry of the earth is never dead.""

- John Keats

""And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.""

- John Muir

""In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.""

- John Muir

""Keep close to nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods.""

- John Muir

""Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.""

- John Muir

""The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.""

- John Muir

""The mountains are calling, and I must go.""

- John Muir

""I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.""

- Henry David Thoreau

""Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.""

- Lao Tzu

""In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man.""

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

""Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.""

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Time and space may separate us, but not the thoughts and memories that bind us."

- Ed Parker

""It’s funny the way most people love the dead. Once you’re dead, you’re made for life.""

- Jimi Hendrix

""Dying is easy; it’s living that scares me to death.""

- Annie Lennox

"You shouldn't wait for other people to make special things happen. You have to create your own memories."

- Heidi Klum

""When I die, I hope to go to heaven, whatever the hell that is.""

- Ayn Rand

""Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out of it alive.""

- Elbert Hubbard

""Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.""

- Herodotus

""I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.""

- J.R.R. Tolkien

""So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.""

- Earl Grollman

""The trouble with quotes about death is that 99.9% of them are made by people who are still alive.""

- Joshua Burns

""The art of dying graciously is nowhere advertised in spite of the fact that its market potential is great.""

- Milton Mayer

""I am prepared to meet my maker. Whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.""

- Winston Churchill

""The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.""

- Will Rogers

""When I die, I want to go peacefully like my grandfather did, in his sleep — not screaming, like the passengers in his car.""

- Will Rogers

""The song is ended but the melody lingers on.""

- Irving Berlin

""Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.""

- José N. Harris

""All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.""

- Lord Byron

""Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.""

- Orson Scott Card

""Death will be a great relief, no more interviews.""

- Katharine Hepburn

""I’m very pleased to be here. Let’s face it—at my age, I’m very pleased to be anywhere.""

- George Burns

""Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for.""

- Terry Pratchett

""We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world – the company of those who have known suffering.""

- Helen Keller

""If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the UP button.""

- Sam Levenson

""He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.""

- H.H. Munro

""If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.""

- Tallulah Bankhead

""I can’t afford to die; I’d lose too much money.""

- George Burns

""For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.""

- Johnny Carson

""You know you’re old when the candles cost more than the cake.""

- Bob Hope

""The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.""

- Dave Barry

"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal. Love leaves a memory no one can steal."

- Unknown

"The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives."

"Grief is the last act of love we can give to those we loved. Where there is deep grief, there was great love."

"Perhaps they are not the stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy."

- Anonymous

"The pain passes, but the beauty remains."

"What is lovely never dies, but passes into another loveliness."

"Some people make such a big impression on our hearts, they continue to walk beside us even after they’re gone."

- Unknown

"While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil."

"Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day…unseen, unheard, but always near; still loved, still missed and very dear."

- Anonymous

"The dead never truly die. They simply change form and live on in our stories, our laughter, and our quiet moments of reflection."

- Unknown

"When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure."

"There are some who bring a light so great to the world, that even after they have gone, the light remains."

- Unknown

"We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love."

""Death is the last chapter in time, but the first chapter in eternity.""

""I’ll hold you in my heart until I can hold you in heaven.""

""Goodbye is not forever. Goodbye is not the end. It simply means I'll miss you until we meet again.""

""You will forever be my always.""

""I did not see you close your eyes or hear your last sigh. I only heard that you were gone, too late to say goodbye.""

""It broke my heart to lose you, but you didn't go alone. Part of me went with you, wherever you may roam.""

""Remembering you is easy. I do it every day, but there is an ache within my heart that will never go away.""

""What it means to lose you, no one will ever know.""

""Our hearts still ache in sadness and secret tears still flow.""

""You may be gone from my sight, but you are never gone from my heart.""

""Not a day goes by when you are not loved and missed.""

""When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.""

""Your life was a blessing, your memory a treasure. You are loved beyond words and missed beyond measure.""

""When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.""

- Anonymous

""Held in our hearts forever.""

""It’s hard to forget someone who gave us so much to remember.""

""A life that touches others goes on forever.""

"Life is a song—sing it. Life is a game—play it. Life is a challenge—meet it. Life is a dream—realize it. Life is a sacrifice—offer it. Life is love—enjoy it."

"The world changes from year to year, our lives from day to day, but the love and memory of you, shall never pass away."

"A father is neither an anchor to hold us back, nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way."

"A mom’s hug lasts long after she lets go."

"Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever."

"Together forever."

"Together forever with God."

"We know that for those who love God, all things work together for good."

"Together forever in God’s loving care."

"I love you more today than yesterday, but not as much as tomorrow and more."

"My kingdom is not of this world."

"Theirs is the kingdom of Heaven."

"In thee O God have I hoped."

"My soul hath hoped in the Lord."

"We are saved by hope."

"Thy faith hath saved me."

"I have kept the faith."

"I know Heaven is a beautiful place because they've got you."

"In the blink of an eye, everything can change. So forgive often and love with all your heart. You may never not have that chance again."