Finding the right words to say at a funeral or in a condolence card can be difficult. Here are some quotes about death and funerals that may help.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink how momentary is man's life. -- Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor and Philosopher

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay some forms of life arise. -- Charles Mackay.

God's finger touched him, and he slept. -- Tennyson, In Memoriam

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. -- Samuel Johnson

There is no cure for death, save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana

What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man is sorry for himself, he doubles death. -- Euripedes

There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be? -- William Hazlitt

Though it is in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death. -- Sir Thomas Browne (1642)

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

Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short , but when we have had our fill of fruit, our swelter of heat, we said that we have had our day. -- Emerson (1855)

When we lose someoe we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. -- Maurice Maeterlinck

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