Quotes About Your Eulogy

#1. One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy.

Brian Koslow

#2. Really think about what you want your eulogy to say about you, then live THAT.

Tanya Masse

#3. Cherish all your happy moments.

Margaret Moore

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

Arianna Huffington

#5. 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

#6. 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 Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Phil Ochs

#12. 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

#13. When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.

E.F. Benson

#14. 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

#15. How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

William Rotsler

#16. 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

#17. And they die an equal death - the idler and the man of mighty deeds.

Homer

#18. 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

#19. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

Robert Kennedy

#20. Done to death by slanderous tongue

William Shakespeare

#21. 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

#22. I'm pragmatic. If I were cruel, I'd give him an eulogy instead of a conversation.

Leigh Bardugo

#23. Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.

Ted Turner

#24. 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

#25. This day and your life are God's gift to you - so give thanks and be joyful always.

James M. Beggs

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

Coco Chanel

#27. We may not be able to witness our own eulogy, but we're actually writing it all the time, every day.

Arianna Huffington

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.

Nazr Mohammed

#31. 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

#32. One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Elbert Hubbard

#33. Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor.

Homer

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

Voltaire

#35. 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

#36. '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

#37. The art of being kind is all the world needs.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#38. My liberty depends on you being free, too.

Barack Obama

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it.

Ellen Terry

#44. 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

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

Edwin Percy Whipple

#46. When words are most empty, tears are most apt.

Max Lucado

#47. Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

George Edward Woodberry

#48. 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