100+ Funeral Quotes

Finding the right words to say goodbye can be challenging. In moments of grief and farewell, we often search for comfort in the wisdom of those who have articulated our deepest feelings.

These 100+ quotes are thoughtfully categorized to help you find the perfect words for any funeral setting.

Sweet Funeral Quotes

Capture the essence of your love and memory with these tender quotes.

• “What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
• “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
• “Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.” – Rabindranath Tagore
• “The reality is that we don’t forget, move on, and have closure. But rather we honor, we remember, and incorporate our deceased loved ones into our lives in a new way.” – Elizabeth Berrien
• “Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day.” – Unknown
• “May love be what you remember most.” – Darcie Sims
• “Gone from our sight, but never from our hearts.” – Unknown
• “Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy.” – Eskimo Proverb
• “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi
• “Death ends a life, not a relationship.” – Mitch Albom
• “Say not in grief ‘he is no more’ but in thankfulness that he was.” – Hebrew Proverb
• “While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.” – John Taylor
• “The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” – Charles Dickens
• “He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• “A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” – Maya Angelou
• “It is not length of life, but depth of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Death is just another path, one that we all must take.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
• “Only a moment you stayed, but what an imprint your footprints have left on our hearts.” – Dorothy Ferguson
• “The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.” – Seneca
• “We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.” – Madame de Staël

Funeral Quotes For Friends

Celebrate the unbreakable bond and cherish the memories shared with a departed friend.

• “Friends are the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, sometimes they lean on you, and sometimes it’s just enough to know they are standing by.” – Merle Shain
• “A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.” – Gustave Flaubert
• “The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.” – Seneca
• “Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.” – Ernest Hemingway
• “It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” – Marlene Dietrich
• “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” – J.K. Rowling
• “No person is ever truly alone. Those who live no more, whom we loved, echo still within our thoughts, our words, our hearts.” – Richard Fife
• “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
• “If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.” – A.A. Milne
• “Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.” – Flavia Weedn
• “A true friend is never truly gone. Their spirit lives on in the memories of those who loved them.” – Unknown
• “When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” – Unknown
• “Your life was a blessing, your memory a treasure. You are loved beyond words and missed beyond measure.” – Renee Wood
• “The bond between friends cannot be broken by chance; no interval of time or space can destroy it. Not even death itself can part true friends.” – John Cassian
• “We never truly get over a loss, but we can move forward and evolve from it.” – Elizabeth Berrien
• “The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb.” – German Proverb
• “If tears could build a stairway, and memories a lane, I’d walk right up to Heaven and bring you home again.” – Unknown
• “Life brings tears, smiles, and memories. The tears dry, the smiles fade, but the memories last forever.” – Unknown
• “When you lose someone you love, you gain an angel you know.” – Unknown
• “Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.” – David Searls

Funeral Quotes For a Family Member

Honor the unique relationship and eternal bond with a family member who has passed.

• “Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.” – George Eliot
• “The love of a family is life’s greatest blessing.” – Unknown
• “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – From an Irish headstone
• “A family is a circle of love, not broken by a loss, but made stronger by the memories.” – Unknown
• “It’s hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember.” – Unknown
• “The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.” – Benjamin Disraeli
• “Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
• “What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness.” – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• “They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.” – William Penn
• “In the gardens of memory, in the palace of dreams, that is where you and I shall meet.” – Alice Through the Looking Glass
• “Those we have held in our arms for a little while, we hold in our hearts forever.” – Unknown
• “A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.” – Irish Proverb
• “Though we are separated by death, we are united in memory.” – Unknown
• “The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” – George Santayana
• “We carry your heart with us (we carry it in our hearts).” – E.E. Cummings
• “Your end, which is endless, is as a snowflake dissolving in the pure air.” – Zen Teaching
• “There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,” – Isabel Allende
• “If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.” – James O’Barr
• “Memories… let them fill your mind, warm your heart, and lead you through.” – Unknown
• “The family chain is broken and nothing seems the same, but as God calls us one by one, the chain will link again.” – Ron Tranmer

Funeral Quotes For Him

Reflect on the life and legacy of a remarkable man with these poignant quotes.

• “A man is not dead while his name is still spoken.” – Terry Pratchett
• “The heart of a man is a deep ocean of secrets.” – Gloria Stuart
• “To live in the hearts of those we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
• “A gentleman holds his strength within him; his exterior is just a reflection of his inner quiet and assurance.” – Unknown
• “Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.” – Rossiter Worthington Raymond
• “He walked this earth with kindness and left his footprints on many hearts.” – Unknown
• “Man’s feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.” – Jean Paul Richter
• “The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.” – Benjamin Disraeli
• “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” – Joseph Campbell
• “Men are like stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.” – José Martí
• “The measure of a man is not how he died but how he lived.” – Unknown
• “Not how did he die, but how did he live? Not what did he gain, but what did he give?” – Unknown
• “These heroes are dead. They died for liberty – they died for us. They are at rest. They sleep in the land they made free, under the flag they rendered stainless.” – Henry Ward Beecher
• “No man is really dead until he is forgotten.” – Edgar Rice Burroughs
• “A great man is always willing to be little.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• “Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.” – Ernest Hemingway
• “The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.” – Unknown
• “He achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.” – Bessie Anderson Stanley
• “A true man does not die when his body is entombed; his spirit lives on in the memories of those who loved him.” – Unknown

Funeral Quotes For Her

Celebrate the life of a remarkable woman with these heartfelt quotes.

• “The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.” – Audrey Hepburn
• “A woman’s heart is a deep ocean of secrets.” – Gloria Stuart
• “She was powerful not because she wasn’t scared but because she went on so strongly, despite the fear.” – Atticus
• “The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.” – Edgar Allan Poe
• “She is clothed in strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future.” – Proverbs 31:25
• “Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.” – C.S. Lewis
• “A woman who walks in purpose doesn’t have to chase people or opportunities. Her light causes people and opportunities to pursue her.” – Unknown
• “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
• “She was a wild, wicked slip of a girl. She burned too brightly for this world.” – Emily Brontë
• “For an angel went up in heaven today, just as we said goodbye to her on earth.” – Unknown
• “Though her smile is gone forever and her hand I cannot touch, I still have so many memories of the one I loved so much.” – Unknown
• “She lived with hurricane eyes and fell in love with the way the waves collapsed against her cheeks.” – Unknown
• “A great woman is one who leaves others at a loss after she is gone.” – Unknown
• “Her voice left a flavor of honey and gunpowder on the air.” – Unknown
• “She walked in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies.” – Lord Byron
• “The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.” – Audrey Hepburn
• “She was not fragile like a flower; she was fragile like a bomb.” – Unknown
• “The angels, whispering to one another, Can find, among their burning terms of love, None so devotional as that of ‘Mother.'” – Edgar Allan Poe
• “Remembering her wonderful and gentle soul will forever remain in our hearts. May she rest in peace!” – Unknown
• “To know her was to love her.” – Unknown

In moments of loss, words of comfort and remembrance can bring solace to the grieving heart.

These quotes, spanning the depths of love, friendship, and the unique bonds we share with those who have passed, offer a way to articulate our feelings and memories.

May they provide comfort, evoke cherished memories, and inspire you to celebrate the lives of those who have made a lasting impact.

In sharing these words at a funeral, we not only honor the departed but also remind ourselves of the love and connections that death cannot sever.