eulogy quotes
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
- La Rochefoucauld
Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!
- Shakespeare
I cannot think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have lived than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral.
- Lord Mountbatten
I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while and think of what sort of mourners he is training for the event.
- Robert T. Morris
I have not moved from there to here without I think t please you, and still an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.
- Arthur Miller
I have said that the soul is not more than the body, and I have said that the body is not more than the soul, and nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is, and whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
- Walt Whitman
I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.
- Maria Edgeworth
I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.
- Maria Edgeworth
If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning-coaches.
- Jonathan Swift