Readings & Quotations For Funerals
Sometimes, it can be hard to find the right words. A well chosen reading or quotation is a beautiful way to convey feelings and to remind us of the shared experience of grief.
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A Butterfly
Anonymous
A butterfly lights beside us like a sunbeam and for a brief moment its...
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A Reflection on an Autumn Day
Unknown
I took up a handful of grain and let it slip flowing through my fingers, and I...
All the World's a Stage (As You Like It, Act II Scene VII)
William Shakespeare
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely...
Ecclesiastes 3 V 1 - 8
Revised English Bible
For everything its season, and for every activity under heaven...
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Fahrenheit 451 (an extract)
Ray Bradbury
Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A...
Footprints in the Sand - One Night a Man had a Dream...
Anonymous
One night a man had a dream. He dreamt that he was walking along a beach with the...
Give a Girl the Right Shoes...
Marilyn Monroe
"Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world."
Gone From My Sight
Henry Van dyke
I am standing upon the seashore.
A ship at my side spreads her white sails to...
I'm Not Afraid of Death
Woody Allen
"I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when...
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I've Told My Children That When I die...
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
"I’ve told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to...
In This Sad World of Ours
Abraham Lincoln
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with the bitterest agony...
In Three Words
Robert Frost
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it...
Intimations of Immortality (an extract)
Seneca
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one
Isaiah 25 V 6-9
Revised English Bible
On this mountain the LORD of Hosts will prepare a banquet of rich fare...
Isaiah 61 v 1 - 4
Revised English Bible
The spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me because the LORD has anointed me;...
Mark 10 v 13 - 16
Revised English Bible
They brought children for him to touch. The disciples rebuked them...
Matthew 18 v 1 - 5
Revised English Bible
At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, ‘Who is the greatest in the...
No Matter What (an extract)
Debi Gliori
"Does love wear out” said Small, “does it break or bend? Can you fix it, stick it,...
One Day at a Time, This is Enough
Adam Lindsay
One day at a time; this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the...
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Our revels are now ended (The Tempest, Act IV Scene I)
William Shakespeare
Our revels are now ended: these our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air,...
Pilgrim's Progress (an extract)
John Bunyan
I see myself now at the end of my journey; my toilsome days are ended. I...
Psalm 121
Revised English Bible
If I lift up my eyes to the hills, where shall I find help?...
Psalm 139 v 7 - 12
Revised English Bible
Where can I escape from your spirit, where flee from your presence...
Psalm 23
Revised English Bible
The LORD is my shepherd; I lack for nothing. He makes me lie down...
Revelation 21 v 1 - 7
Revised English Bible
I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first...
Romans 8 v 35, 37- 39
Revised English Bible
Then what can separate us from the love of Christ? Can affliction or hardship...
Some Are Bound to Die Young
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Some are bound to die young. By dying young a person stays young in people’s...
The Excursion (an extract)
William Wordsworth
And when the stream that overflows has passed, a consciousness remains upon the...
The Little Prince (an extract)
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travellers, the stars are guides....
The Prophet, "On Friendship"
Kahlil Gibran
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love...
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The Prophet, "On Joy and Sorrow"
Kahlil Gibran
Then a woman said, Speak to us of Joy and Sorrow.
And he answered:
Your joy is your...
The Prophet, "You would know the secret"
Kahlil Gibran
You would know the secret of death.
But how shall you find it unless you...
The Velveteen Rabbit (an extract)
Margery Williams
"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing...
To Live in the Hearts
Thomas Campbell
"To live in the hearts of those we leave behind is not to die."