Eulogy quotes
53 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"People say, "How would you like to be remembered?" I don't want to be remembered. Gimme a break. What I want is to hear what's great about me now. Let me hear it! In the box you don't hear these eulogies."
"Life truly is a boomerang. What you give, you get."
"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."
"The golden rule is that there are no golden rules."
"And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds."
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"The goal of all life is death"
"He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy."
"No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more."
"I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it."
"Whoever brought me here will have to take me home."
"Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed."
"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!"
"Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up."
"Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy."
"The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date."
"Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it."
"Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change."
"Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor"
"I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris."
"Eulogies never talk about what was on your resume. Be remembered for how you made people feel and your passions"
"Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?"
"Have you noticed that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?"
"Done to death by slanderous tongue"
"This film [Chi-Raq]is a declaration. It's a scream. It's a warning. And I can really break it down to one scene. That's the scene where we have the eulogy and sermon that is given by the great John Cusack."
