10 Inspirational Quotes for Eulogies

When writing a eulogy for a loved one who has passed, it can be difficult to find the right words. It is a challenge to capture the essence of your dearly departed in a speech, especially while coupled with the grief that follows such a loss. This is why many turn to the words of authors and poets, philosophers and prophets, for inspiration and quotation for eulogies. Below is a small collection of quotes that are often used for eulogies and memorial services.

"Those who living fill the smallest space,
In death have often left the greatest void."
 -- W.S. Landor

"It’s not the years in your life, but the life in your years that counts."
 -- Adlai Stevenson

"I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that remains."
 -- Anne Frank

"Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life."
 -- Charles Lamb

"The buried are not lost, but gone before."
 -- Ebenezer Elliott

"Ever absent, ever near;
Still I see thee, still I hear;
Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!"
 -- Francis Kazinczy

"When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions."
 -- William Shakespeare

"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."
 -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

"Who sleeps the longest is the happiest;
Death is the longest sleep."
 -- Thomas Southerne

Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
 -- Thomas Moore

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