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Click here to get over 250 bereavement poems and quotes. Remembrance quotes are exactly what you will need for a memorial or funeral program. They are also great for inseting into a reading. Memorial quotes are almost always short sayings about life and death, and they are also thought provoking that will have the listeners reflecting on its meaning. These quotes can also be used for various other reasons.
Remembrance quotes are typicaly placed on the tombstones of passed loved ones. They are more commonly used in eulogies at the funeral service. Memorial quotes tend to also be proverbs. A proverb is a very short sentance based on long expression.
Sigmund Freud has one of the all time greatest quotes about death: “The goal of all life is death.” This quote is found on many cards and other keepsakes. This is one of my favorite remembrance quotes. Listed below are a few other quotes that you can use.
1. All say, “How hard it is that we have to die”-a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. ~Mark Twain
2. After the first death, there is no other. ~Dylan Thomas
3. Death is the veil which those who live call life; they sleep, and it is lifted. ~Shelley
4. For certain is death for the born, and certain is birth for the dead;
Therefore over the inevitable, thou shouldst not grief. ~Bhagavad-Gita
5. Death either destroys us or unmasks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden is gone; if destruction, nothing at all awaits us, blessings and curses are abolished. ~Seneca
6. Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the sea; they live in one another still. ~William Penn
7. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. ~Leonardo da Vinci
Any quote that relates to our talks about death can be considered a memorial quote. Its important for it to say something inspiring, or something that will get people thinking. At a funeral people will always some sort of inspiration in what you say. You can download our book on memorial sayings here: Click here to get over 250 bereavement poems and quotes.