Uplifting Celebration Quotes
A memorial service can be more than a somber occasion; it can also be a celebration of life. Brighten the atmosphere with quotes from artists, historical figures, poets, and advocates.
Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.—TERRI GUILLEMETS
Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.—ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well-used brings happy death.—LEONARDO DA VINCI
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends leave footprints in your heart.—ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
The connections we make in the course of life—maybe that’s what heaven is.—FRED ROGERS
I can’t think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral.—ADMIRAL LORD MOUNTBATTEN
“How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”—A.A. Milne
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.—DR. SEUSS
Perhaps they are not the stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.—ANONYMOUS
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.—WILLIAM PENN
Every life is noted and is cherished, and nothing loved is ever lost or perished.—MADELEINE L’ENGLE
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away but not that of having had one.—SENECA
Wherever a beautiful soul has been, there is a trail of beautiful memories.—RONALD REAGAN
Celebration Quotes For Moms
Here are some Celebration Quotes for Moms that convey her wonderful personality and enduring impression—the one who packed your lunches, stitched your costumes, and was always the first to call when you had good news.
You are gone, but thank you for all these soft, sweet things you left behind. In my home, in my head, in my heart.—NIKITA GILL
The world changes from year to year, our lives from day to day, but the love and memory of you, shall never pass away.—UNKNOWN
She made broken look beautiful and strong look invincible. She walked with the universe on her shoulders and made it look like a pair of wings.—ARIANA DANCU
“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.”—C.S. Lewis
Say not in grief that she is no more, but say in thankfulness that she was. A death is not the extinguishing of a light but the putting out of the lamp because the dawn has come.—RABINDRANATH TAGORE
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my own garden forever.—ALFRED JENNYON
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.—ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Only a moment you stayed but what an imprint your footprints have left on our hearts.—DOROTHY FERGUSON
Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.—J.K. ROWLING
There is something about losing a mother that is permanent and inexpressible—a wound that will never quite heal—SUSAN WIGGS
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Celebration Quotes For Dads
Check out these statements and ideas that accurately describe the man you miss so much—the one who was your defender, cheerleader, and someone you could always count on.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.—HENRY DRUMMOND
A person’s true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.—NAZR MOHAMMED
When he shall die take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun.—WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.—CLARENCE BUDINGTON KELLAND
“To her, the name of father was another name for love.”—Fanny Fern
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.—JIM VALVANO
A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. In the hour of need, when all else fails, we remember him upon whose knees we sat when children.—ÉMILE GABORIAU
This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments—and you get the tears at the end, too.—HARLAN COBEN
Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.—UNKNOWN
There is no expiration date on the love between a father and his child.—JENNIFER WILLIAMSON
When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him lies on the paths of men.—HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Funny Celebration Quotes
Incorporating fun into the celebration of life may be a familiar and comforting approach to dealing with a tough situation.
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.—WILLA CATHER
Immortality … a fate worse than death.—EDGAR A. SHOAFF
I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize that I’m listening to it.—GEORGE CARLIN
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.—W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
I am ready to meet my maker. Whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.—WINSTON CHURCHILL
“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”—Mark Twain
Life is stressful, dear. That’s why they say ‘rest in peace.—DAVID MAZZUCCHELLI
The idea is to die young as late as possible.—ASHLEY MONTAGU
Death is nature’s way of saying, ‘Your table is ready.—ROBIN WILLIAMS
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.—ISAAC ASIMOV
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people live.—GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
