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Memorial Video Quotations - and Historical Wisdom

Death, for all its pain, is a unique prompt to ponder the big issues in life. And a collection of sentiments that the person lived by or that represent their beliefs and philosophies helps us to focus our thoughts.

Sometimes a person was known for their own sayings or homilies. These can be also included.

Here is a small selection of our favorite quotes. Call us to get a pdf of the whole list.

Biblical Memorial Video Quotations

ECCLESIASTES 9:11
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

PROVERBS 13:12
A longing fulfilled is a tree of life.

PSALM 127:3
Children are a gift from God; they are his reward.

RICK WARREN
Love leaves a legacy. How you treated other people, not your wealth or accomplishments, is the most enduring impact you can leave on earth.

PROVERBS 31:25
She is clothed with strength and dignity and laughs without fear of the future.

PHILIPPIANS 4:11
I have learned to be content with whatever I have.

POPE FRANCIS
In the face of unjust and painful situations, faith brings us the light which scatters the darkness.

PROVERBS 14:1
A wise woman strengthens her family.

ISAIAH 43:1
The Lord who created you says…I have called you by name; you are mine.

ECCLESIASTES 4:9, 10
Two are better than one…for if they fall, one will lift up the other.

UNKNOWN
When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.

POPE FRANCIS
The most beautiful thing that God made, the Bible says, was the family.

MATTHEW 5:4
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted…

ISAIAH 41:10, 13
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand …

ECCLESIASTES 3:1-2
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted

ROMANS 8:38,39
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

POPE FRANCIS
Perfect families do not exist. Love is born and constantly develops amid lights and shadows.

2 CORINTHIANS 4:16-18
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison.

MATTHEW 11:28
Then Jesus said, "Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest".

ISAIAH 43:2
When you go through deep waters, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown. When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up; the flames will not consume you.

PSALM 27:4-5
One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to inquire in his temple.

MARTIN LUTHER:
The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.

MARK TWAIN
God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.

ALEXANDRE DUMAS
Until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.'

JOHN 11:25-26
The Lord Jesus said: ‘I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live; and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.

HEBREWS 11:1
Faith shows the reality of what we hope for; it is the evidence of things we cannot see.

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Classic Funeral Slideshow Quotes

JOHN LENNON
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN:
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

GILDA RADNER
Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity.

THOMAS CAMPBELL
To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die.

GAIL TSUKIYAMA
Mothers and their children are in a category of their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.

JIMI HENDRIX
I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”

ALBERT EINSTEIN
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

MAE WEST
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

UNKNOWN
Family like branches on a tree, we all grow up in different directions, yet our roots remain the same.

GANDHI:
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

BERTRAND RUSSELL
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

BOB MARLEY
Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. Colors seem brighter and more brilliant.
You experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible.

JACKIE ROBINSON
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Literary Memorial Video Wisdom

AA MILNE (WINNIE THE POOH)
If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever

NICHOLAS SPARKS
I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.

THEODOR GEISEL (DR. SEUSS)
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

MITCH ALBOM
Death ends a life, not a relationship.

MARK TWAIN
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

ANAIS NIN
People living deeply have no fear of death.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

PABLO NERUDA
Tonight I can write the saddest lines -
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

JRR TOLKIEN
In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! We are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.

GEORGE SAND
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

DOUGLAS ADAMS
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

CHARLES DICKENS
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

OSCAR WILDE
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

VICTOR BORGE:
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

HENRY VAN DYKE
Happiness is inward and not outward; and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

BETH BROWN:
If it's nothing more than a smile - give that away and keep on giving it.

LIBBIE FUDIM
Recall it as often as you wish, a happy memory never wears out.

PETER USTINOV:
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

WINSTON CHURCHILL:
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

ALBERT EINSTEIN
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

JOHN LENNON
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

FRANKLIN P. JONES:
Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

BENJAMIN DISRAELI:
We are all born for love; it is the principle of existence and its only end.

BOB DYLAN
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

LES DAWSON
Families are like fudge- mostly sweet , with a few nuts.

ZADIE SMITH
You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.

NICOLE KRAUSS
Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.

JM BARRIE
So much of what is great has sprung from the closeness of family ties.

GEORGE ELIOT
What do we live for, if not to make the world less difficult for each other?

WOODY ALLEN
I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.

ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
1. We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

2. That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.

H. JACKSON BROWN
A friend is a person who knows all about you, but likes you anyway.

JON KRAKAUER
Happiness is only real when shared.

MAYA ANGELOU
All great achievements require time.

CHARLES AND ANN MORSE
The history of our grandparents is remembered not with rose petals but in the laughter and tears of their children and their children’s children. It is into us that the lives our grandparents have gone. It is in us that their history becomes a future.

SIR WALTER RALEIGH
But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning, never sick, never old, never dead, from itself never turning.