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Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?
Sep 10, 2025
So good to be alive when the eulogies are read.
Done to death by slanderous tongue
I think when I dropped The Eulogy is when it became more [about] feedback because that's when Pitchfork wanted to review it and things like that.
I would like to do my own eulogy, and then shoot myself and then get in the coffin.
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
We pass through this world but once.
Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.
God's finger touched him, and he slept.
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
I fall asleep in the full and certain hope That my slumber shall not be broken; And that, though I be all-forgetting, Yet shall I not be all-forgotten, But continue that life in the thoughts and deeds of those I have loved.
It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.
I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
More people have a fear of speaking than a fear of death. So at a funeral, most people would want to be the person in the coffin rather than the person delivering the eulogy!
But trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!.
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Have you noticed that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?
Life truly is a boomerang. What you give, you get.
I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world, void of national bias, race, hate, and religious prejudice. There should be no indulgence in undue eulogy of the Negro. The case of the Negro is well taken care of when it is shown how he has far influenced the development of civilization.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.
Dreams are more powerful than facts.
Grief is the price we pay for love.
He not busy being born is busy dying.
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
The art of being kind is all the world needs.
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change the world which yields most painfully to change.
Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on.
A recent survey stated that the average person's greatest fear is having to give a speech in public. Somehow this ranked even higher than death which was third on the list. So, you're telling me that at a funeral, most people would rather be the guy in the coffin than have to stand up and give a eulogy.
I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking.
That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives. All the attendant hoopla about it, the success over it or the critical rejection—none of that really matters. In the end, the thing will survive or not on its own merits. Not that immortality via art is any big deal. Truffaut died, and we all felt awful about it, and there were the appropriate eulogies, and his wonderful films live on. But it’s not much help to Truffaut.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.