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Advice on choosing an epitaph

1) "Less is more" - epitaphs are usually brusk and concise. Fifty-fifty if yous utilize the whole reverse of a headstone, you lot volition be limited to a few lines. Epitaphs provide a gamble to sum up a person's life in merely a few words, to give it shape and express existent emotion.

2) Epitaphs frequently convey a strong feeling. However, the best epitaphs are timeless and not overly sentimental, and for this reason, I ever advise waiting at least a year earlier choosing an epitaph and so that emotions have time to settle and you don't afterwards regret your pick.

3) Often, someone is speaking in the first person (a relative, a friend; the deceased). You lot might want to think about whose voice you lot want the epitaph to be. The Church of England discourages overly sentimental epitaphs.

4) Consider whether you want the epitaphs to speak directly to someone. This may be a passerby or the loved 1 themselves.

v) Take inspiration from literature, lyrics, and poems. You might even apply a few words from a poem that was read at the funeral.

6) About importantly of all, have your time; an epitaph y'all choose soon after losing a loved one might be quite different from the epitaph you lot would choose a year later. You desire the epitaph to suffer and exist timeless, for those who visit the grave after y'all take died, but as well for yourself every bit your emotions settle and you lot remember your loved ane more conspicuously.

seven) If you can, try to make the epitaph uplifting. If the epitaph celebrates life, it will bring peace and comfort to all who visit the grave.

This is an example of an uplifting epitaph, called by a wife who had lost her husband at an early age. She must take been devastated, simply the epitaph she chose reflects her gratitude for the time she had with her husband, rather than her grief.

Nosotros have known beauty
Which will last the years
And beloved which men take
died for and not known

Purpose of a headstone epitaph

The headstone epitaph or gravestone quote oft includes a person's name and dates together with a headstone inscription. This may accept the form of a slice of prose or a reference from the Bible. The aim is often to praise the humble virtues of the person who has died or to remind united states of america of the bond between the living and the dead. It may exist a symbol or reminder of our mortality or indeed immortality. This is a very personal choice, i that should not exist influenced by others.

Below is a list of headstone inscriptions and memorial quotes. I began with 150 but I go along adding more than.

Many of my favourites are ones that clients take made upwards themselves or have found in poems or even lyrics to songs. For example, I recently saw an epitaph on a headstone proverb "Give me the trounce boys and free my soul", a lyric from a song by Mentor Williams.

The most of import thing to conduct in mind I recollect is that the inscription will be there for hundreds of years. Practice not be hurried into choosing an epitaph straight away. I always encourage people to await at to the lowest degree a twelvemonth before choosing a headstone. For examples of carvings, you might too visit this post on headstone symbols. You may besides want to wait at my list of beautiful funeral poems for inspiration.

In many cases the simplest headstone epitaphs or inscriptions can be the most profound.

List of headstone epitaphs and gravestone quotes

(I have recently added a listing of epitaphs for a adult female, female parent or girl)

Brusk epitaphs: openings and endings

Beloved.

Dearly beloved.

Adored.

So loved.

Into the sunshine.

Dearly loved.

One time met, never forgotten..

Uncompromisingly unique.

Remembered with love.

Love you always.

With a greater thing to do.

Love is enough

Peace perfect peace.

Deep peace of the quiet earth to you lot.

Generous of center, constant of organized religion.

Beloved you miss you lot.

So loved.

In everloving retentivity of.

Dearest is plenty.

May his retentivity be eternal.

Always together.

Devoted in beloved.

Dance on...

Ever loving, always loved.

Your beloved will light my way.

Asleep in Jesus.

Forever in our hearts.

Until we see again.

Rest in Peace.

Hither lies.

Ever loved.

Adored.

So loved.

An inspiration.

Loved and remembered.

In God's care.

An inspiration to all.

She walked in beauty

Together again.

Dearest is waiting.

Once met, never forgotten.

A long life well lived.

Remembered with love.

Great love lives on.

More times...

Love is eternal.

Honey lives on.

Sleep till eternity.

Time passes, love remains.

We remember..... with open hearts.

A free spirit

Precious are the memories of

Small and gentle of heart.

Longer epitaphs and quotes

Your love will light my manner

Speak your love still once once again. (Edward Clinton)

Our dear is dearest forever.

And the dazzler of the soul revealed.

You are ever in my head.

Ageless beauty, running wild.

He was one who followed dreams, stars and ships.

She walks in beauty like the dark of clement climes and starry skies. (Lord Byron)

Our brief partings on World volition appear 1 day as nothing abreast the joy of eternity together.

And when the globe shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.(Gibran) See this carved onto a headstone

What we keep in our memory is ours unchanged forever.

Speak your love withal again. (Edward Clinton)

Tears water our growth (William Shakespeare)

Dance, then, wherever you may be. (Sydney Carter, from Lord of the Dance)

To live in the hearts of those we love is not to die. (Thomas Campbell)

I am I and you are yous, whatever we were to each other that we still are. (Catechism Henry Scott-Holland)

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

Death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight. (Rossiter Worthington Raymond)

Good dark, and you will dream of me (Maurice Sendak, My Brother's Book)

Blessed slumber to which we all return.

Grace to be born and live equally variously as possible.

No 1 spread more love in ane lifetime.

Sadness is a wall betwixt two gardens.

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores (Shakespeare)

Even equally the sun goes downward,
To finish the light of day,
It'southward rising on a new horizon,
Somewhere far away.

Life is not forever. Beloved is.

Where there is dandy love there are always miracles.

Until the day break, and the shadows flee away. (Cant. two:17)

Where He leads me I can safely get. (Millay)

The song is ended but the melody lingers on… (Irving Berlin)

Existent love stories never take endings.

My barque is wafted to the strand by jiff Divine and on the captain at that place rests a hand other than mine.( Henry Alford)

Whither thou goest, I volition go. (Ruth i:sixteen)

Today she dances with angels.

The vocal is ended merely the melody lingers on. ( Irving Berlin)

For all we know this might just exist a dream,
nosotros come and get similar ripples in a stream. (Nat King Cole)

No one thinks of winter when the grass is green. (Rudyard Kipling)

Be yet.
Close your eyes.
Exhale.
Heed for my footfall in your heart.
I am not gone but merely walk within you. From "The Smoke Jumper" by Nicholas Evans See this epitaph on a headstone

'Tis not the whole of life to alive, nor all of death to die. (J. Montgomery)

Far Away, There In The Sunshine Are My Highest Aspirations (Louise May Alcott)

At present twilight lets her curtain down and pins it with a star. (L.M.Child)

As I was and so are ye As I am and so shall ye bee. Thy life a floure Thy breath a blast (from a gravestone in Waterstock St Leonards)

Non hodie Quod heri (I am non today what I was yesterday)

They flash upon that inward eye, Which is the elation of solitude. (Wordsworth)

Step softly, a dream lies buried hither. (Yates) Come across these words on a headstone.

Your calm is in the trees.

Should we lose each other in the shadow of the evening trees
I'll await for yous
And should I fall behind
Wait for me

(Bruce Springsteen)

Et vive la musique que nous tombe du ciel. (Carmen, Bizet)

Say not in grief that she is no more than
simply say in thankfulness that she was
A death is non the extinguishing of a lite,
but the putting out of the lamp
because the dawn has come. (Tagore)

The sun on my face, even on the shortest day.

If winter comes, can spring exist far backside? ( Percy Bysshe Shelley)

Be certain, wherever I may roam, my centre is with your eye at habitation.

Expiry is only a shadow beyond the path to heaven.

Strive not, my soul, for an immortal life, only make the most of what is possible.(Pindar)

We come whirling out of nothingness handful stars like dust. The stars made a circle and in the middle we dance.(Rumi)

Sorrows are like tall angels with star-crowns in their hair. (Margery Eldredge Howell)

I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days. (Keats)

Deep peace of the tranquillity Globe to you.

I am the daughter of Earth and Water,
And the nursling of the Heaven;
I pass through the pores of the body of water and shores;
I change, but I cannot die.

(Percy Bysshe Shelley, from The Cloud)

For all we know
This might only be a dream
We come up and we get
Like the ripples, like the ripples in the stream (Nina Simone)

The life that I have
Is all that I accept
And the life that I take
Is yours

The love that I take
Of the life that I take
Is yours and yours and yours.

A sleep I shall have
A rest I shall accept
Yet death will be just a pause
For the peace of my years
In the long green grass
Will be yours and yours and yours. (The Life That I Have by Leo Marks)

Those nosotros love don't go abroad, they walk beside us every 24-hour interval.

Always in our thoughts, forever in our hearts.

Dance, and then, wherever you lot may be. (Sydney Carter, from Lord of the Dance)

Sugariness are the memories that never fade.

Past the whispering shady copse. I will find my sanctuary in the Lord. (Van Morrison)

His life a beautiful memory, his absence a silent grief.

For everything exists and not
i sigh nor smile nor tear,
i hair nor particle
of dust, not one can laissez passer away.

(William Blake)

There was grace in her steps, love in every gesture.

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
I have sent up my gladness on wings, to be lost in the bluish of the sky. (Amelia Josephine Burr)

He who binds to himself a joy, Does the wingéd life destroy; Simply he who kisses the joy as information technology flies, Lives in eternity's sunrise. (William Blake)

She touched everyone with special love and kindness.

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me.(Virgil)

Blessed To Us Is The Retentivity Of Your Unselfish Love

Lost now but loved forever.

Whoever brought me hither
will have to take me habitation. (Rumi)

For with God nix shall exist impossible.

She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar. (Janet Fitch, White Oleander)

A star on World and a star in heaven.

An angel on Earth and an angel in heaven.

Life is a dream walking, death is going home.(Chinese Proverb)

What you seek is seeking you. (Rumi)

Out beyond ideas
of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
at that place is a field.
I'll meet you there.

(Rumi)

He longest lives, who most to others gives, himself forgetting.

Safe in the artillery of Jesus.

Her works were kindness, her deeds were dear.

World has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

Decease is non the extinguishing of the lite, but the putting out of the lamp, because Dawn has come. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Death is but crossing the earth, as friends exercise the seas; they live in one another nonetheless.(from More Fruits of Confinement by William Penn)

Then long as men can breathe, or eyes can encounter,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. (Shakespeare, Sonnet Eighteen)

Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the retentivity. (Shelley)

In small proportions we just beauties see;
And in short measures life may perfect be. (Ben Jonson)

Love is not changed past decease And nothing is lost And all in the stop is harvest.(Edith Sitwell)

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but past the moments that have our jiff abroad.

A life, like whatever other, completely unlike whatever other. (Neil Gaiman)

I volition dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

Yet in this center'southward virtually sacred place, thou, solitary, shall dwell forever (Moore)

God gives us love. Something to love He lends u.s.. (Tennyson)

VITA MUTATUR Non TOLLITUR
(Life is changed, not taken away)

World has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. (Moore)

I know I am deathless.
I know this orbit of mine
cannot be swept past a carpenter's compass.
All goes outward and nothing collapses,
and to die is dissimilar
from what anyone supposed...and luckier.
~ Walt Whitman

God is and all is well. (Whittier)

From my torso, flowers shall abound and I am in them and that is eternity (Edvard Munch)

We sheet the beautiful and invisible ocean, where none have ever really drowned. (Brian Pattten)

How many times do I honey thee, dearest?
Tell me how many thoughts there be
In the temper
Of a new-autumn'due north twelvemonth,
Whose white and sable hours announced
The latest flake of Eternity:—
So many times practice I love thee, love. (Kelsall)

He who has gone, so we simply cherish his memory, abides with us, more than potent, nay, more present, than the living man.(Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

The heart of man is restless until he finds residual in Thee. (St Augustine)

Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss. (Milton)

They loved each other and taught us that love.

Till the principal of all good workmen shall fix united states of america to work anew (Kipling)

Peace is thine, and sweet remembrance is ours.

Whither tho goest I will go.

You will hear thunder and call up me,
And think: she wanted storms.
The rim
Of the sky will be
the colour of hard crimson,
And your heart,
as it was then,
will be on fire.

(Unknown source)

So we crush on, boats against the current, borne dorsum ceaselessly into the past. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven. (H. Westward Beecher)

He did not lose his identify in the minds of men because he was out of their sight. (John Henry Newman, Sermons)

Sky, the treasury of everlasting joy. (Shakespeare)

The acts of this life are the destiny of the next. (Eastern saying)

Even the angels
Forget their services and nearly her fly
Ofttimes peering on her face that seems more fair
The more they on information technology stare

When yous are sorrowful, expect over again. (Gibran)

In His will is our peace. (Dante)

Allow me return to my home town entombed in grass every bit in a warm and high sea. (Giorgio Bassam)

Life is not about waiting for the storm to laissez passer…. it'due south almost learning how to dance in the rain.

Deep peace of the quiet earth to you. (Gaelic blessing)

The kingdom of Heaven is within you.

Expiry is not a foe, but an inevitable take a chance. (Sir Oliver Lodge)

It is not length of life, but depth of life. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

To reach a swell height a person needs to accept great depth.

For death begins with life's first jiff, and life begins at the touch of decease. (John Oxenham)

The heart of him who truly loves is a paradise on Earth. (Lamennais)

Pendant que je restais en bas dans l'ombre noire
d'autres montaient cueielir le baiser de la gloirie
~ Cyrano de Bergerac

While I remained at the bottom in night shadow
others ascended to know the kiss of glory (translation)

To touch the soul of some other human being is to walk on holy footing. (Stephen R. Covey)

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot exist seen, nor touched, only are felt in the center. (Helen Keller)

Call back friend as y'all pass by
As you are now and then once was I
Equally I am at present you lot will surely be
Prepare thyself to follow me. (Gazis-Sax 2001)

Never born, Never died: visited the planet earth between December 11, 1931 and, January 19, 1990. (Osho)

Generous of heart, abiding of faith.

Oh fair plenty are heaven and obviously
But I know fairer far (A.E.Housman)

Merely when you beverage from the river of silence shall yous indeed sing.

I am the sailor of eternity whose voyage is non gone. (Shannon Fifty. Alder)

Fourth dimension is as well boring for those who expect, as well swift for those who fear, besides long for those who grieve, likewise short for those who rejoice, just for those who dear, time is eternity. (Henry Van Dyke)

That all-time portion of a good man'southward life,
His picayune, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of dearest (William Wordsworth)

Our birth is merely a sleep and a forgetting:
The soul that rises with us, our life'south star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar.
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
Simply trailing clouds of glory, do we come
From God, who is our habitation:
Sky lies about us in our infancy.
(William Wordsworth)

Coelorum perrupit claustra.
He broke through the barriers of the skies. (Herschel)

Across is the space morning of a twenty-four hours without tomorrow. (W.Due south. Abbott)

From joy all beings have come and unto joy they all return. (Upanishads)

Thou tun'st this Globe beneath, the Spheres above,
Who in the Heavenly Circular to their own Music move (Purcell)

We are non human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience. ( Pierre Teilhard de Chardin)

Decease is the golden key that opens the palace of Eternity. (Milton)

The acts of this life are the destiny of the next. (Eastern proverb)

What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps. (Longfellow)

Saved by grace alone!
This is all my plea:
Jesus died for all mankind,
And Jesus died for me. (lyrics from Grace 'tis a charming sound)

We all shine on...like the moon and the stars and the lord's day...we all shine on...come on and on and on... (John Lennon)

I used to measure out the skies, at present I measure the shadows of Earth.
Although my mind was sky-leap, the shadow of my body lies hither. (Johannes Kepler)

People living deeply have no fear of decease. (Anais Nin)

There is no pain and then peachy every bit the memory of joy in nowadays grief. ( Aeschylus)

Lights volition guide y'all home (Coldplay)

The life given united states of america, by nature is brusk; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

She filled every second of her life with laughter, dearest and happiness.

Their greatest peace was institute in nature.

If you lot tin can remember me, I volition be with you always. ( Isabel Allende)

Life is non about waiting for the storm to laissez passer…. it's well-nigh learning how to trip the light fantastic toe in the pelting.

She is not far away.

Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect calorie-free. I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the dark." (From "The Erstwhile Astronomer" by Sarah Williams)

Softly the leaves of retention fall,
Gently I gather and treasure them all.
Unseen, unheard,
You are always nearly,
So missed, so loved, and so very dear.
(from a verse form by Colin Godon-Farleigh) Encounter this epitaph on a headstone

God could not accept made earthly ties so stiff to break them in eternity.

Safe in the hallowed quiets of the by. (Lowell)

Too well loved to be ever forgotten.

Let your soul stand cool and equanimous
earlier a million universes. (Walt Whitman)

Frolic in the land of forever with me. (Rae Hachton)

We only part to meet again (Gay)

May she be remembered every bit she remembered others.

Say not in grief "She is no more", but live in thankfulness that she was. ( Rabindranath Tagore)

Sky, the treasury of everlasting joy. (Shakespeare)

When peace, similar a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows whorl;
Any my lot, 1000 has taught me to say,
It is well, it is well, with my soul (Spafford)

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a fly. (Robert Ingersoll)

Where there is much low-cal, the shadows are deepest. (Goethe)

Plough me loose from your easily, Let me fly to distant lands, Wing away skyline pigeon fly, Towards the dreams yous've left and so very far backside. (Elton John)

Truth to your own spirit. (Jim Morrison)

Life's race well run,
Life's work well done,
Life's victory won,
Now cometh rest. (Edward Parker)

He hath awakened from the dream of life. (Shelley)

I would rather exist a superb shooting star, every cantlet of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
(Jack London)

Dare to be unlike. Represent your maker well and you volition forever abide in the beautiful comprehend of his loving arms. (Jaachynma North.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper)

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (Eloisa to Abelard, Alexander Pope)

You are my sunday, my moon,and all my stars. (East E Cummings)

Epitaphs for children and babies

Many of the epitaphs higher up would exist suitable for a child, just hither are a few special ones for a kid. I encourage parents to try to write their own epitaphs or to search for inspiration in verse and lyrics. Below is an example of a song past Alvin and the Chipmonks, which has several lines you could use on a headstone for a child. I take likewise created a split up list of epitaphs and ideas for children'south headstones.

God'due south garden needs flowers.

Thrice happy Child, for surely she was borne on purpose to be translated to eternitie (St Michael,Cumnor , on headstone for Frances Peacock who died in 1689 aged 11)

Oh, for boyhood'southward time of June, crowding years into one cursory moon. (Whittier)

One cursory moment and all will be as it was before
How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we come across again! (Canon Henry Scott-Kingdom of the netherlands)

The kid is the father of the man. (Wordsworth)

Called by ane who loves him dearly.

Children are the keys of paradise. (R.H. Stoddard)

Her Fearless Buoyant Youth Will E'er Live, Revealing Love And Truth And Radiant Joy.

Held for a moment, loved for a lifetime.

Budded on Earth to bloom in Sky.

May you lot notice comfort in the Artillery of An Angel.

A painter of rainbows.

I held yous your whole life.

The all-time and about cute things in the world cannot exist seen, nor touched, but are felt in the heart. ( Helen Keller)

If I had a blossom for every time I idea of you...I could walk through my garden forever (Tennyson)

Time cuts down all, Both great and small.

May you bear on
Dragonflies and stars,
Dance with fairies,
And talk to the moon

There is no foot so small that it cannot leave an imprint on this world.

Equally long as I tin can I will look at this world for both of us. As long as I can I will laugh with the birds, I will sing with the flowers, I will pray to the stars, for both of us. (Sascha)

Born into the arms of the Angels.

Waft her, angels, through the skies. (Handel)

If every tear nosotros shed for you lot became a star above, you'd stroll in Angels' garden lit past everlasting beloved.

Tread advisedly, here lies our globe.

Whoever brought me here
will accept to have me habitation. (Rumi)

Sentry us every bit the earth becomes smaller
Smell as the breezes wind
Gently by... isn't information technology chiliad?
Nosotros are miles from sea
And years from land...
Look at the space that surrounds us
Feel every bit we glide through
A pure white cloud
Floating so gratis. What is up ahead...
We'll encounter

[Chorus]
We're flying with the eagles now
We've only begun our sail
Nosotros've got our mission all mapped out
It will be a wondrous tale
We'll land on every foreign shore
Though we've not long to stay...
We're headed toward
The rainbow'south cease
Where the sun is shining...
Flying with the eagles now
And we must be on our mode...

Up hither we're free from all troubles
Upwardly here it seems that life's all and so clear
As we're in flight and we glide
Into the dark still night...
Look at present the stars are appearing
So close we about can touch
Their soft glistening eyes
They are angels in disguise

[Repeat Chorus] Flying with The Eagles by Alvin and the Chipmunks

Equally snug as a issues in a rug.

Gone to be an affections.

But Still I Dream That Somewhere There Must Be The Spirit Of A Child That Waits For Me.(Bayard Taylor)

Each new life... No matter how fragile or cursory... Forever changes the earth.

So small, and then sweet, so soon.

An Angel visited the dark-green Earth, and took a flower away.(Longfellow)

Hush, my dear, be however and sleep; Jolly angels guard your bed. (Watts)

Fiddling Boy Blue has gone abroad. (Field)

Sleep, my piddling one, sleep. (Harrington)

A little soul takes wings.

I would rather exist a superb meteor, every cantlet of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of human being is to alive, not to exist.
I shall not waste matter my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time."
― Jack London

Let the lilliputian children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven. Matthew xix:fourteen

Loved with a beloved beyond telling,
Missed with a grief across all tears.

Sometimes love is for a moment.
Sometimes love is for a lifetime.
Sometimes a moment is a lifetime.

Ours for a little while.

And As The Evening Twilight Fades Abroad The Sky Is Filled With Stars, Invisible By Day (Longfellow)

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here, Warm southern air current, accident softly here, Green sod in a higher place, prevarication lite, lie light, Good-night, dear heart, adept-night, good-night. (Olivia Susan Clemens)

Children are the keys of paradise. (R.H. Stoddard)

A fiddling soul deficient fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while nosotros hailed every bit fresh from birth A little soul. (Algernon Charles Swinburne)

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall presume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you lot. (Walt Whitman)

Keep your face ever toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
(Walt Whitman)

At present, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and observe.
(Walt Whitman)

Epitaphs for a male parent, son, hubby or brother

Captain of my soul.

Truly a noble spirit.

Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and detect. Walt Whitman

And all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side. John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress

Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven for ever in the work of the world. John Ruskin

We loved him dearly.

And Life is all the sweeter that he lived. Gerald Massey

He has outsoared the shadow of our night. John Keats

In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love.
There entertain him all the saints higher up. John Milton

At last he rose, and twitched his mantle bluish:
Tomorrow to fresh woods, and pastures new. John Milton

To know him was to beloved him.

He's gone: simply you can see his tracks still, in the snow of the globe. Norman MacCaig

A glittering way he showed them
Beyond the dim outpost. Thomas Crosland

Home is the crewman
domicile from the body of water
And the hunter
abode from the hill.

West B Yeats

His name is written in letters of love
On the hearts he left at home.

I would hurry to my place of shelter, far from the storm and the tempest.

His life inspired in me
A joy that shall outlive eternity. Geoffrey Dearmer

Lives of bully men all remind usa
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, exit behind united states of america
Footprints on the sands of fourth dimension; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Faith, family and fortitude.

He deserves Paradise, who makes his companions express joy. The Koran

Fortune pledges things to many,
Guarantees them not to whatsoever.
Live for each mean solar day, alive for the hours,
Since nothing is for e'er yours.

From a tomb in 2^nd Century Pompeii

In certain and certain hope.

Godspeed.

Wing on dear boys from this night world of strife
On to the land of promise, to eternal life.
They are not dead, such spirits never die,
They are unquenchable, they only sleep.

From grave of William McCudden Senior

An honest human being's the noblest work of God. Alexander Pope

My 2d self and best earthly companion. Charlotte Bronte

A human being who built bridges.

Simply the best.

A gentle man and A admirer.

I see y'all dancing, begetter. Brendan Kennelly

He is the past, present and hereafter. from The Path by Hisham Matar

One of nature's gentlemen.

What courtesy and gentleness were his,
Our lives for years to come volition miss
His sweetness serenity.

Life's race well run,
Life'due south piece of work well done,
Life's victory won,
Now cometh rest. Edward Parker

One of God's good men.

I swear he is truthful-hearted; and a soul
None amend in my kingdom. Shakespeare

My barque is wafted to the strand
Past breath Divine and on the helm
there rests a hand other than mine.

Henry Alford

Happy Warrior. Wordsworth

And and so when I remember you I recollect of all things rich and true.

A fine human who made a difference to so many.

He gave us the meaning of humanity.

A abiding husband.

A valiant man.

A true individual is never forgotten.

Who loved this identify together with his darling.

All is non finished.

He who kisses the joy as it flies, lives in eternity's sunrise. William Blake

Lived life to the total.

Loving, loyal and total of laughter.

A kind and gentle man
Remembered with love
For the person he was
And the good that he did

A very special man

Loved and remembered

Thou dost go on him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee.

Somewhere beyond the sunset, where the loneliness never dies,
He dwells in a cute garden, beneath God's heavenly skies.
May the current of air of Sky blow softly on that sweet and sacred spot,
Where the one we honey is sleeping and volition never be forgot.

Epitaphs for a mother, girl, wife or sister

So she took his hand in the summer lord's day and they walked in fields of gold.

I come into the peace of things.

The light of your honey is shining.

True-blue and courageous

Near loving near dear

She was beauty, grace and kindness and will not be forgotten.

Constant of religion, generous of heart

Dance to the beat of the melody you hear however measured or far away.

She walks in beauty (Lord Byron)

Anima Naturaliter Christiana (A Naturally Christian Soul)

When dearest is eternal life cannot dice

A brilliant life has gone from our lives

Spirited, caring and cute

She sowed courtesy and reaped friendship
She planted kindness and gathered love

You have given us wings to fly

There is not in this wide world a valley so sweet
As that vale in whose bosom the brilliant waters meet. (Thomas Moore)

The heart of the family

Waft her, angels through the skies

Life seems more sweet that thou dids't live

Her calorie-free shines on in those she loved

Precious diamond

Your ready smile brightened our days

Ageless beauty running wild
your love surrounds us in the air current
Flying high with the birds
Belonging to the universe

Sapientiaque Astra Reluxit (and her brilliance lit up the stars)

Your love volition light our way

Rest gently, gently residuum

She was bubbles in the champagne of life

Generosity of spirit

A radiant life of love and kindness

Bring me sunshine

Recently discovered Epitaphs

Once again the morning's come up,
Again he'due south on the run,
Sunbeams shining through his hair,
Appearing non to have a care.
Well, pick up your gear and Gypsy roll on, scroll on.

The Allman Brothers Band, lyrics

After the burn, a still small phonation.

If I follow the light in which I believe I can do but proficient.

Although she sleeps, her retention lives on.

May her soul savor glory.

In spite of illness, in spite fifty-fifty of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if i is unafraid of modify, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in large things, and happy in small ways. Edith Wharton

Biblical Epitaphs

I am my beloved's and his desire is for me. Vocal of Solomon 7:ten

He volition wipe every tear from their eyes. There volition be no more death, or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away. Revelation 21:4

That whoever believes in him may take eternal life. John iii:fifteen

Keep me as the apple of your eye;
hide me in the shadow of your wings, Psalm 17

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall meet God. Matthew five:8

They can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God'due south children, since they are children of the resurrection. Luke 20:36

God is dear; and he that dwelleth in dearest dwelleth in God, and God in him. John 4:13

Whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:15

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. two Timothy 4:seven

I sought the Lord and He heard me and delivered me from all my fears. Psalm 34:4

I will elevator up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help. Psalm 121:1

Sleep on now, and have your residual. Matthew 26:45

In all things showing yourself to be a pattern of good works; in doctrine showing integrity, reverence, incorruptibility. Titus 2:seven

For God so loved the globe that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish only take eternal life. John 3:16

Until the day pause, and the shadows flee away. Cant. ii:17

Whither yard goest, I volition go. Ruth 1:sixteen

He shall receive in the world to come eternal life. Marking 10:xxx

Blessed is the man who maketh the Lord his trust. Psalms forty:4

Well done, thou good and faithful servant. Matthew 25:21

I would hurry to my place of shelter, far from the storm and storm. Psalm 55:8

Let my beloved come into his garden, and consume his pleasant fruits. Song of Solomon 4:16

The Lord sentry between me and thee, while we are absent, one from the other. Genesis 31:49

Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine– "Grant them eternal residuum, O Lord"

Let no one seek his own, merely each 1 the other'due south well-beingness. 1 Corinthians x:24

Rise upwardly, my love, my fair one and come up away
For lo, the winter is by, the rain is over and gone. Song of Solomon 2: x-thirteen

O BE joyful in the LORD, all ye lands: * serve the LORD with gladness, and come earlier his presence with a song. Psalm 100

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