Quotes About Eulogies

#1. When you die I bet you want real life, pure real life, eulogies that are unpoetic and messy, smeared with tears and truisms, cliched as hell, the kind of stuff a person means.

Kate Hattemer

#2. I liked my teacher very much and after some years of mediation, I began to teach meditation, referring all things that I didn't know to my own teacher.

Frederick Lenz

#3. All of a sudden, one day, you're this boxer that everybody like, or you're this guy that people pass on the highway and wave at. The next day, you're this guy that everybody want to touch - be in touch with you. Then you think that this is the answer to all things.

George Foreman

#4. Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.
Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell.

Tahereh Mafi

#5. Ever since I was 7 years old, I wanted to be great.

Gloria Trevi

#6. I'm of an age when if I started to do eulogies, I'd be doing nothing else. You don't want to be remembered? I don't want them to be told to remember me.

Garrison Keillor

#7. Antiquity is full of eulogies of another more remote antiquity.

Voltaire

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

Edwin Percy Whipple

#9. So good to be alive when the eulogies are read.

Phil Ochs

#10. Government is a necessary evil

Thomas Paine

#11. If I die tomorrow, you aren't allowed to say my life was cut short at age 25. I did more in those years than most people will ever do.

Alisa Mullen

#12. Its wounds are as fresh as the wounds of the men who carved

George R R Martin

#13. Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and putting into soup cans, out of the ivy and over rose bushes and hedges - the little Alcott Golf and Country Club. I just loved having a wedge in my hands.

Amy Alcott

#14. A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills - no, no. They'd make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while.

Robin Williams

#15. People say, "How would you like to be remembered?" I don't want to be remembered. Gimme a break. What I want is to hear what's great about me now. Let me hear it! In the box you don't hear these eulogies.

Jerry Lewis

#16. Nick commenced a monologue explaining the impossibility of such a phenomenon: the subordination of content to the aesthetics of language in Arabic literature, the dominance of panegyrics and eulogies as an art form, etc.

Rabih Alameddine

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

Arianna Huffington

#18. I know the feeling of being with a person with whom I have nothing in common, and yet there they are, and there we are, together, sharing pieces of our lives.

Rebecca Pidgeon

#19. If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people who call. A lot of times I'm busy so they'll get my voice mail. And if I can speak to them and I have time, I always text back. Because I think that's very important.

Flo Rida

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

Arianna Huffington

#21. If you're playing in a tradition and you have no reference point to it, no understanding and have not studied it, I can't respect that.

Rosanne Cash

#22. Love is the water of life. Lover is a soul of fire.
The universe turns differently when the fire loves water,

Elif Shafak

#23. Write a smart joke and people want to talk about it and keep the dialogue going. Also, if you can make someone laugh, it's a pronouncement that they like you on some level.

Lizz Winstead

#24. I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

Peggy Noonan

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

Arianna Huffington

#26. Marriage is the tomb of friendship.

Hannah Webster Foster