Top 76 Quotes About Eulogy
#1. My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they'll leave in people's hearts. They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
Abraham Verghese
#2. Clara tried to give the eulogy, but couldn't speak. Her words stuck at the lump in her throat. And so Myrna took over, holding her hand while Clara stood beside her.
Louise Penny
#3. I'm pragmatic. If I were cruel, I'd give him an eulogy instead of a conversation.
Leigh Bardugo
#4. More people have a fear of speaking than a fear of death. So at a funeral, most people would want to be the person in the coffin rather than the person delivering the eulogy!
Geoffrey Rush
#5. No eulogy is due to a man who simply does his duty and nothing more.
Augustine Of Hippo
#6. My face warms under the scrutiny of silence, and I'm almost relieved when he launches into his eulogy. To my dismay, it turns out to be a sermon.
Rae Carson
#7. This film [Chi-Raq]is a declaration. It's a scream. It's a warning. And I can really break it down to one scene. That's the scene where we have the eulogy and sermon that is given by the great John Cusack.
Spike Lee
#8. But we do not need to recount every sermon and eulogy. After all, you were there.
Neil Gaiman
#9. The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#10. As I stood and gave the eulogy for young Michael Brown last week, I kept thinking about the fact that this child should have been in college instead of laying in a coffin.
Al Sharpton
#11. Both poetry and philosophy are prodigal of eulogy over the mind which ransoms itself by its own energy from a captivity to custom, which breaks the common bounds of empire, and cuts a Simplon over mountains of difficulty for its own purposes, whether of good or of evil.
Horace Mann
#12. I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.
George Carlin
#13. According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.
Jerry Seinfeld
#14. Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#15. I know it's a bit self-aggrandizing."
"Hey, you're stealing my eulogy," Isaac said. "My first bit is about how you were a self-aggrandizing bastard.
John Green
#16. Eulogy - especially from a young lass who, as he informed his mother that evening, had such uncommon eyes, they looked somehow as they made him feel nohow.
George Eliot
#17. A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.
Janis Ian
#18. No money, no church service, no eulogy,no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit. p 354
Abraham Verghese
#19. The marriage is over; counseling is the eulogy. The relationship autopsy is the wake.
Suzanne Finnamore
#20. I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking.
Eddie Marsan
#21. Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
Ambrose Bierce
#22. A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
Irvin S. Cobb
#24. From behind the wheel, I learn the difference between a eulogy and an elegy, and discover which is more vital, in life and in death.
David Levithan
#25. The sixth and last eulogy was from Roderick, Hugo and Verna's oldest child. He wrote a three-page tribute to his father, and it was read by the reverend. Even Michael Geismar, a cold-blooded Presbyterian, finally succumbed to his emotions. The
John Grisham
#26. We may not be able to witness our own eulogy, but we're actually writing it all the time, every day.
Arianna Huffington
#27. The world spins despite me, not because of me, he muttered. Last week, one of his coworkers died after twenty-five years of service. There was an email and eulogy sent by one of the managers - and then a mad scramble by everyone else to loot his office supplies.
Wesley Chu
#28. What is an argument for the defense that neither torments nor troubles - what is a eulogy that fails to kill? Every apology should be a murder by enthusiasm.
Emil Cioran
#29. Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
Voltaire
#30. The sculptor, the painter the musician the dancer, or any artist, if he can first obtain celebrate in Paris, acquires very easily the esteem and eulogy of other countries.
Swami Vivekananda
#31. 'The Imitation Game' is a celebration of Alan Turing's life and legacy, and Joan's final monologue is our eulogy. It's the thing we all wished we could have said to him.
Graham Moore
#32. I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris.
Coco Chanel
#33. The setting sun threatened to consume me - it could have, you know. It would have been a beautiful death with an honorable eulogy: slain by a magnificent slice of piercing orange energy. I simply turned and walked away; I would live another day.
Chila Woychik
#34. Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it.
Ellen Terry
#35. I had a sort of classic moment when a friend of mine rang up and said she'd just been to a funeral, and in the middle of the eulogy, this kid had taken out the phone and had a whole proper text conversation - while everyone was weeping!
Beeban Kidron
#36. Ironic, is it not, that the great Divinicus Nex cowers in fear from that which should be her fated prey? A decidedly diametric circumstance.
What? It's irritating when the monster hunting you has a better vocabulary than your own. Maybe it could do my eulogy?
A&E Kirk
#37. Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.
George Edward Woodberry
#38. I've never heard a eulogy about a person where they talk about the value of wealth and how much money the've left behind. They only talk about the character ,love, integrity, humour strength etc.
So why is it so important to some that they lose sight of everything else in life ?
Lou Silluzio
#39. One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy.
Brian Koslow
#40. Really think about what you want your eulogy to say about you, then live THAT.
Tanya Masse
#41. He presses his forehead down on the podium and I watched his shoulders shake, and then finally, he said, "Goddamn it, Augustus, editing your own eulogy."
"Don't swear in the Literal Heart of Jesus," Gus said.
John Green
#42. I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him - but he was a good and faithful horse.
-Frank
From "Eulogy for a Percheron" in "The Horse Lawyer and Other Poems
Greg Seeley
#43. Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every eulogy reminds me to deepen my dash, that place on the tombstone between our birth and our death.
Regina Brett
#44. 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.
Albert Camus
#45. People feel guilty enough at funerals without having more guilt heaped on. I would prefer a bighearted preacher giving my eulogy, someone inclined to widen heaven's doors. I don't want to leave folks wondering whether I made it.
Philip Gulley
#46. And they die an equal death - the idler and the man of mighty deeds.
Homer
#47. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.
Robert Kennedy
#49. Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.
Ted Turner
#50. This day and your life are God's gift to you - so give thanks and be joyful always.
James M. Beggs
#51. 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
#52. Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
Norman Vincent Peale
#53. All death reminds us that nothing is promised, only that life was worth it.
Shannon L. Alder
#54. There will be grace and forgiveness enough, old dog, even for you. I pray you will spare me a drink from that cup, when it overflows for you.
- Miles Vorkosigan
Lois McMaster Bujold
#55. Such pedantic apotheosis is reached by so few, and when parishioners are left without their guiding star, we can only desperately cling to the last intimations of a passing titan.
Michelle Franklin
#56. It's important to have a buddy like that. Somebody who'll stop you from doing that really stupid thing you were gonna do just because you couldn't think of anything better.
unidentified soldier, eulogizing his dead buddy
Henry V. O'Neil
#57. If I ever got sloppy and maudlin, it would be for the streets of my childhood - but no self- respecting writer should ever eulogize a slum ...
John Geddes
#58. Eulogies never talk about what was on your resume. Be remembered for how you made people feel and your passions
Arianna Huffington
#59. His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
William Shakespeare
#60. Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.
Henry Van Dyke
#61. How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.
William Rotsler
#62. When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.
E.F. Benson
#63. He had the desperation, not the courage, to be himself. Once you do that, you can't go wrong, because you can't make any mistakes when people love you for being yourself. But for Kurt, it didn't matter that other people loved him; he simply didn't love himself enough.
Charles R. Cross
#64. So good to be alive when the eulogies are read.
Phil Ochs
#65. If I close my eyes, I can feel his body, in that way that you do when someone is near, a faint yet intent electric pulsing.
E.W. Storch
#67. My liberty depends on you being free, too.
Barack Obama
#68. When words are most empty, tears are most apt.
Max Lucado
#69. The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.
Edwin Percy Whipple
#70. Warm summer sun,
shine brightly here,
Warm Southern wind,
blow softly here,
Green sod above,
lie light, lie light,
Good night, dear heart;
good night, good night.
Mark Twain
#71. To hear how much of a great human being you were - even if you really weren't - open your ears at your funeral.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#72. I can't pray or weigh my words right; doomsday
is here my friend, but you're immune. We suffer
for you. I'm weaving crowns of sonnets, dreads;
a souvenir so you'll never forget your friends.
Jalina Mhyana
#74. Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor.
Homer
#75. One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
Elbert Hubbard
#76. A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
Nazr Mohammed
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