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Headstone Epitaphs- 250 beautiful examples

Posted thirteen/10/14 in The Headstone Guide

Advice on choosing an epitaph

1) "Less is more" - epitaphs are usually short and curtailed. Even if you use the whole contrary of a headstone, you will be limited to a few lines. Epitaphs provide a gamble to sum up a person'southward life in simply a few words, to give it shape and limited real emotion.

2) Epitaphs often 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 before choosing an epitaph so that emotions accept fourth dimension to settle and you don't later regret your option.

3) Oft, someone is speaking in the start person (a relative, a friend; the deceased). You lot might want to call up about whose vocalism you desire the epitaph to be. The Church building of England discourages overly sentimental epitaphs.

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

5) Take inspiration from literature, lyrics and poems. You might fifty-fifty use a few words from a poem which was read at the funeral.

6) Nigh importantly of all, take your time; an epitaph you choose soon subsequently losing a loved might be quite dissimilar from the epitaph you would choose a year afterward. You desire the epitaph to endure and be timeless, for those who visit the grave after you accept died, but also for yourself as your emotions settle and you think your loved ane more clearly.

vii) If yous tin can, effort 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, chosen by a wife who had lost her husband at an early historic period. She must have 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 dazzler
Which will last the years
And love which men have
died for and non known

Purpose of a headstone epitaph

The headstone epitaph or gravestone quote often includes a person's name and dates together with a headstone inscription. This may take the form of a piece of prose or a reference from the Bible. The aim is ofttimes to praise the apprehensive virtues of the person who has died or to remind u.s.a. of the bond betwixt the living and the dead. It may be a symbol or reminder of our mortality or indeed immortality. This is a very personal choice, ane that should not be influenced past others.

Below is a list of headstone inscriptions and memorial quotes. I began with 150 just I keep adding more than!

Many of my favourites are ones that clients have made up themselves or have constitute in poems or fifty-fifty lyrics to songs. For example, I recently saw an epitaph on a headstone saying "Give me the crush boys and free my soul", a lyric from a song by Mentor Williams.

The near of import thing to bear in listen I recollect is that the inscription will be in that location for hundreds of years. Practice non exist hurried into choosing an epitaph straight away. I e'er encourage people to wait at least a year before choosing a headstone. For examples of carvings, you might also visit this post on headstone symbols. You may also want to expect at my list of cute funeral poems for inspiration.

In many cases the simplest headstone epitaphs or inscriptions tin exist the most profound.

List of headstone epitaphs and gravestone quotes

(I have recently added a list of epitaphs for a woman, mother or daughter)

Brusk epitaphs: openings and endings

Beloved.

Dearly beloved.

Adored.

So loved.

Into the sunshine.

Dearly loved.

Once met, never forgotten..

Uncompromisingly unique.

Remembered with love.

Love you always.

With a greater thing to practise.

Love is enough

Peace perfect peace.

Deep peace of the quiet earth to you lot.

Generous of centre, constant of faith.

Love you miss y'all.

So loved.

In everloving retentiveness of.

Dear is plenty.

May his memory be eternal.

Ever together.

Devoted in love.

Dance on...

Always loving, ever loved.

Your love volition low-cal my way.

Comatose in Jesus.

Forever in our hearts.

Until we run across again.

Residue in Peace.

Hither lies.

Ever loved.

Adored.

So loved.

An inspiration.

Loved and remembered.

In God'due south care.

An inspiration to all.

She walked in beauty

Together again.

Dearest is waiting.

In one case met, never forgotten.

A long life well lived.

Remembered with dear.

Peachy love lives on.

More than times...

Love is eternal.

Love lives on.

Sleep till eternity.

Time passes, dearest remains.

We remember..... with open hearts.

A free spirit

Precious are the memories of

Small-scale and gentle of heart.

Longer epitaphs and quotes

Your love will light my way

Speak your dear still one time once more. (Edward Clinton)

Our dear is dearest forever.

And the beauty of the soul revealed.

Yous are always in my head.

Ageless beauty, running wild.

He was ane who followed dreams, stars and ships.

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

Our brief partings on Earth will announced one mean solar day equally nothing abreast the joy of eternity together.

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

What we keep in our retentivity is ours unchanged forever.

Speak your love however once again. (Edward Clinton)

Tears water our growth (William Shakespeare)

Dance, and so, wherever you may exist. (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 nosotros were to each other that we still are. (Catechism Henry Scott-Holland)

And flights of angels sing thee to thy residuum.

Death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nix salve the limit of our sight. (Rossiter Worthington Raymond)

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

Blessed sleep to which we all render.

Grace to be born and live as variously as possible.

No 1 spread more love in ane lifetime.

Sadness is a wall between two gardens.

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores (Shakespeare)

Even equally the sun goes down,
To cease the lite of mean solar day,
It's ascent on a new horizon,
Somewhere far away.

Life is not forever. Love is.

Where there is great love there are always miracles.

Until the mean solar day break, and the shadows flee away. (Cant. ii:17)

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

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

Real love stories never have endings.

My barque is wafted to the strand by breath Divine and on the helm there rests a hand other than mine.( Henry Alford)

Whither thou goest, I volition go. (Ruth i:16)

Today she dances with angels.

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

For all nosotros know this might only be a dream,
nosotros come and become like ripples in a stream. (Nat Rex Cole)

No i thinks of wintertime when the grass is dark-green. (Rudyard Kipling)

Be still.
Close your eyes.
Breathe.
Listen for my footfall in your centre.
I am not gone merely merely walk within you. From "The Smoke Jumper" by Nicholas Evans See this epitaph on a headstone

'Tis non the whole of life to live, nor all of death to dice. (J. Montgomery)

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

Now twilight lets her drape downward and pins it with a star. (Fifty.M.Child)

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

Not hodie Quod heri (I am not today what I was yesterday)

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

Footstep softly, a dream lies buried here. (Yates) Run across these words on a headstone.

Your calm is in the trees.

Should nosotros lose each other in the shadow of the evening trees
I'll expect for you
And should I fall backside
Look for me

(Bruce Springsteen)

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

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

The dominicus on my face, even on the shortest 24-hour interval.

If winter comes, can bound exist far behind? ( Percy Bysshe Shelley)

Be sure, wherever I may roam, my heart is with your heart at home.

Decease is only a shadow across the path to heaven.

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

We come up whirling out of nothingness scattering stars like grit. The stars made a circle and in the middle nosotros dance.(Rumi)

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

I near wish nosotros were collywobbles and liv'd but 3 summer days. (Keats)

Deep peace of the tranquillity Earth to yous.

I am the daughter of Earth and Water,
And the nursling of the Sky;
I laissez passer through the pores of the ocean and shores;
I change, but I cannot die.

(Percy Bysshe Shelley, from The Deject)

For all we know
This might only be a dream
We come and nosotros go
Like the ripples, similar the ripples in the stream (Nina Simone)

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

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

A sleep I shall have
A rest I shall accept
Yet death volition be merely a pause
For the peace of my years
In the long light-green grass
Will exist yours and yours and yours. (The Life That I Have past Leo Marks)

Those nosotros love don't become away, they walk abreast us every twenty-four hour period.

Always in our thoughts, forever in our hearts.

Trip the light fantastic, then, wherever you may be. (Sydney Carter, from Lord of the Trip the light fantastic toe)

Sweet are the memories that never fade.

Past the whispering shady trees. I volition find my sanctuary in the Lord. (Van Morrison)

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

For everything exists and not
1 sigh nor smile nor tear,
one hair nor particle
of grit, not i can pass abroad.

(William Blake)

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

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

He who binds to himself a joy, Does the wingéd life destroy; Only he who kisses the joy equally it 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)

Blest To Usa Is The Retentivity Of Your Unselfish Love

Lost now but loved forever.

Whoever brought me here
will accept to take me home. (Rumi)

For with God nothing shall be 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 Globe and a star in heaven.

An angel on Earth and an angel in sky.

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

What you seek is seeking yous. (Rumi)

Out beyond ideas
of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
at that place is a field.
I'll come across you lot at that place.

(Rumi)

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

Condom in the artillery of Jesus.

Her works were kindness, her deeds were love.

Globe has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

Death is not the extinguishing of the light, but the putting out of the lamp, because Dawn has come. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Death is but crossing the world, as friends practice the seas; they live in one another still.(from More Fruits of Solitude past William Penn)

So long as men can breathe, or optics can see,
Then long lives this, and this gives life to thee. (Shakespeare, Sonnet XVIII)

Music, when soft voices dice, vibrates in the memory. (Shelley)

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

Beloved is not changed by expiry And nothing is lost And all in the end is harvest.(Edith Sitwell)

Life is non measured past the number of breaths nosotros take, simply past the moments that take our breath away.

A life, similar any other, completely dissimilar any other. (Neil Gaiman)

I will dwell in the business firm of the Lord forever.

Yet in this heart's most sacred place, thou, alone, shall dwell forever (Moore)

God gives us love. Something to dearest He lends the states. (Tennyson)

VITA MUTATUR Not TOLLITUR
(Life is changed, non taken away)

Globe 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'southward compass.
All goes outward and nothing collapses,
and to die is different
from what anyone supposed...and luckier.
~ Walt Whitman

God is and all is well. (Whittier)

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

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

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

He who has gone, and so nosotros but cherish his memory, abides with us, more strong, nay, more than nowadays, than the living homo.(Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

The middle of man is restless until he finds rest in Thee. (St Augustine)

Mutual honey, the crown of all our elation. (Milton)

They loved each other and taught us that love.

Till the principal of all skilful workmen shall set us to work anew (Kipling)

Peace is thine, and sugariness remembrance is ours.

Whither tho goest I will go.

You will hear thunder and remember me,
And think: she wanted storms.
The rim
Of the sky will be
the color of hard reddish,
And your centre,
equally it was and so,
will exist on fire.

(Unknown source)

And then nosotros beat out on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Tears are oft the telescope past which men see far into heaven. (H. W Beecher)

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

Heaven, the treasury of everlasting joy. (Shakespeare)

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

Even the angels
Forget their services and virtually her fly
Oft peering on her face that seems more than fair
The more they on it stare

When yous are sorrowful, look again. (Gibran)

In His will is our peace. (Dante)

Let me return to my home boondocks entombed in grass as in a warm and high sea. (Giorgio Bassam)

Life is not near waiting for the tempest to pass…. it's about learning how to dance in the rain.

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

The kingdom of Heaven is within yous.

Death is non a foe, but an inevitable adventure. (Sir Oliver Society)

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

To reach a great superlative a person needs to have great depth.

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

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

Pendant que je restais en bas dans fifty'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 celebrity (translation)

To affect the soul of another homo is to walk on holy ground. (Stephen R. Covey)

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched, but are felt in the heart. (Helen Keller)

Recall friend as yous pass by
Every bit you are at present and then once was I
Every bit 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 eleven, 1931 and, Jan 19, 1990. (Osho)

Generous of eye, abiding of faith.

Oh off-white enough are sky and apparently
Merely I know fairer far (A.Due east.Housman)

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

I am the sailor of eternity whose voyage is not gone. (Shannon L. Alder)

Time is too slow for those who expect, too swift for those who fearfulness, also long for those who grieve, also short for those who rejoice, but for those who honey, time is eternity. (Henry Van Dyke)

That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of honey (William Wordsworth)

Our birth is simply a sleep and a forgetting:
The soul that rises with u.s., our life's star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from distant.
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory, exercise nosotros come up
From God, who is our home:
Heaven lies about united states in our infancy.
(William Wordsworth)

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

Beyond is the space forenoon of a twenty-four hour period without tomorrow. (West.S. Abbott)

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

Thou tun'st this Earth below, the Spheres higher up,
Who in the Heavenly Round to their ain Music move (Purcell)

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

Expiry is the gilded cardinal that opens the palace of Eternity. (Milton)

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

What seems to us only 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 audio)

We all shine on...like the moon and the stars and the sunday...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 securely have no fearfulness of decease. (Anais Nin)

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. ( Aeschylus)

Lights volition guide you home (Coldplay)

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

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

Their greatest peace was found in nature.

If you tin remember me, I will be with you e'er. ( Isabel Allende)

Life is not well-nigh waiting for the storm to pass…. it's almost learning how to trip the light fantastic in the rain.

She is non far abroad.

Though my soul may set in darkness, it volition rise in perfect low-cal. I take loved the stars likewise fondly to be fearful of the nighttime." (From "The One-time Astronomer" by Sarah Williams)

Softly the leaves of memory autumn,
Gently I gather and treasure them all.
Unseen, unheard,
You are always nigh,
So missed, so loved, so very dear.
(from a poem by Colin Godon-Farleigh) See this epitaph on a headstone

God could not have fabricated earthly ties so strong to break them in eternity.

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

Too well loved to be ever forgotten.

Let your soul stand absurd and composed
earlier a million universes. (Walt Whitman)

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

We but part to run into again (Gay)

May she be remembered as she remembered others.

Say non in grief "She is no more", but live in thankfulness that she was. ( Rabindranath Tagore)

Heaven, the treasury of everlasting joy. (Shakespeare)

When peace, like a river, attendeth my manner,
When sorrows like ocean billows scroll;
Whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say,
Information technology is well, it is well, with my soul (Spafford)

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

Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest. (Goethe)

Turn me loose from your easily, Let me wing to distant lands, Fly abroad skyline pigeon wing, Towards the dreams yous've left so very far behind. (Elton John)

Truth to your own spirit. (Jim Morrison)

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

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

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

Dare to be different. Represent your maker well and yous will forever abide in the beautiful embrace of his loving arms. (Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper)

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

You lot are my sun, my moon,and all my stars. (E E Cummings)

Epitaphs for children and babies

Many of the epitaphs above would be suitable for a kid, merely hither are a few special ones for a child. I encourage parents to endeavor to write their own epitaphs or to search for inspiration in poetry and lyrics. Beneath is an example of a song by Alvin and the Chipmonks, which has several lines you lot could use on a headstone for a child. I have as well created a split up listing of epitaphs and ideas for children'due south headstones.

God's garden needs flowers.

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

Oh, for adolescence'due south time of June, crowding years into one brief moon. (Whittier)

1 brief moment and all will exist as information technology was before
How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again! (Catechism Henry Scott-Kingdom of the netherlands)

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

Called by i who loves him dearly.

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

Her Fearless Buoyant Youth Will Ever Live, Revealing Love And Truth And Radiant Joy.

Held for a moment, loved for a lifetime.

Budded on Earth to bloom in Heaven.

May you detect condolement in the Arms of An Angel.

A painter of rainbows.

I held you your whole life.

The best and most cute things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched, but are felt in the heart. ( Helen Keller)

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

Time cuts downwardly all, Both great and small.

May you lot impact
Dragonflies and stars,
Dance with fairies,
And talk to the moon

There is no human foot so small that information technology cannot leave an imprint on this globe.

As long as I can I will look at this world for both of us. Every bit long as I tin I will express mirth with the birds, I will sing with the flowers, I volition 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 we shed for you became a star above, you'd stroll in Angels' garden lit by everlasting love.

Tread carefully, hither lies our world.

Whoever brought me here
will take to take me home. (Rumi)

Sentry us equally the earth becomes smaller
Odour as the breezes air current
Gently by... isn't it grand?
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 see

[Chorus]
We're flying with the eagles now
We've just begun our sheet
Nosotros've got our mission all mapped out
It will be a wondrous tale
We'll land on every foreign shore
Though nosotros've non long to stay...
We're headed toward
The rainbow'south end
Where the dominicus is shining...
Flying with the eagles now
And nosotros must be on our way...

Up here we're free from all troubles
Up here it seems that life'southward all so clear
As we're in flying and we glide
Into the nighttime all the same night...
Look now the stars are actualization
And then close nosotros almost can touch on
Their soft glistening eyes
They are angels in disguise

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

Every bit snug as a bug in a carpeting.

Gone to exist an angel.

But Nevertheless I Dream That Somewhere At that place Must Be The Spirit Of A Child That Waits For Me.(Bayard Taylor)

Each new life... No affair how fragile or brief... Forever changes the world.

And so pocket-size, so sweet, then shortly.

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

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

Picayune Boy Blue has gone away. (Field)

Slumber, my little one, sleep. (Harrington)

A piffling soul takes wings.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of human being is to live, not to be.
I shall non waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall utilize my time."
― Jack London

Allow the fiddling children come up to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of sky. Matthew xix:14

Loved with a love beyond telling,
Missed with a grief beyond all tears.

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

Ours for a footling while.

And As The Evening Twilight Fades Away The Sky Is Filled With Stars, Invisible By 24-hour interval (Longfellow)

Warm summer sun, polish kindly here, Warm southern current of air, blow softly hither, Green sod in a higher place, lie light, lie lite, Adept-nighttime, dear heart, proficient-night, good-nighttime. (Olivia Susan Clemens)

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

A trivial soul scarce fledged for world Takes wing with heaven once again for goal, Even while we hailed every bit fresh from birth A little soul. (Algernon Charles Swinburne)

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

Proceed your face e'er toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall backside you.
(Walt Whitman)

Now, Voyager, sail thou along, to seek and find.
(Walt Whitman)

Visit my gallery of children'southward headstones for more inspiration.

Epitaphs for a begetter, son, husband or brother

Helm of my soul.

Truly a noble spirit.

Now, Voyager, canvas 1000 along, 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 information technology interwoven for ever in the piece of 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.
At that place entertain him all the saints above. John Milton

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

To know him was to love him.

He's gone: but y'all can see his tracks still, in the snowfall of the world. Norman MacCaig

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

Home is the crewman
domicile from the sea
And the hunter
home from the hill.

W B Yeats

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

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

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

Lives of nifty men all remind the states
We tin make our lives sublime,
And, departing, go out behind usa
Footprints on the sands of time; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Faith, family unit and fortitude.

He deserves Paradise, who makes his companions laugh. The Koran

Fortune pledges things to many,
Guarantees them not to any.
Live for each day, live for the hours,
Since nothing is for always yours.

From a tomb in 2^nd Century Pompeii

In sure and certain hope.

Godspeed.

Fly on dear boys from this dark world of strife
On to the country of promise, to eternal life.
They are not expressionless, such spirits never die,
They are unquenchable, they just sleep.

From grave of William McCudden Senior

An honest homo'southward the noblest work of God. Alexander Pope

My second self and best earthly companion. Charlotte Bronte

A human being who built bridges.

Only the best.

A gentle human and A gentleman.

I run into you dancing, father. Brendan Kennelly

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

1 of nature's gentlemen.

What courtesy and gentleness were his,
Our lives for years to come up will miss
His sweet tranquility.

Life's race well run,
Life'south work well done,
Life's victory won,
At present cometh residuum. Edward Parker

1 of God'southward skillful men.

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

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

Henry Alford

Happy Warrior. Wordsworth

And and so when I think you I think of all things rich and truthful.

A fine human being who made a difference to and then many.

He gave us the meaning of humanity.

A abiding husband.

A valiant human.

A true private is never forgotten.

Who loved this identify together with his darling.

All is non finished.

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

Lived life to the full.

Loving, loyal and full of laughter.

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

A very special human

Loved and remembered

Thou dost keep 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 wind of Sky blow softly on that sweet and sacred spot,
Where the one we love is sleeping and will never be forgot.

Epitaphs for a mother, daughter, wife or sis

So she took his paw in the summer sun and they walked in fields of aureate.

I come up into the peace of things.

The light of your love is shining.

Faithful and courageous

Most loving well-nigh dearest

She was beauty, grace and kindness and volition not exist forgotten.

Constant of faith, generous of eye

Trip the light fantastic to the vanquish of the tune yous hear all the same measured or far away.

She walks in beauty (Lord Byron)

Anima Naturaliter Christiana (A Naturally Christian Soul)

When dear is eternal life cannot dice

A brilliant life has gone from our lives

Spirited, caring and beautiful

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

You have given u.s.a. wings to wing

There is not in this broad world a valley so sugariness
Every bit that vale in whose bosom the bright waters see. (Thomas Moore)

The heart of the family unit

Waft her, angels through the skies

Life seems more sugariness that thou dids't live

Her calorie-free shines on in those she loved

Precious diamond

Your fix smile brightened our days

Ageless beauty running wild
your love surrounds us in the wind
Flight high with the birds
Belonging to the universe

Sapientiaque Astra Reluxit (and her luminescence lit upwards the stars)

Your love will calorie-free our manner

Rest gently, gently rest

She was bubbles in the champagne of life

Generosity of spirit

A radiant life of love and kindness

Bring me sunshine

Recently discovered Epitaphs

Again the morn's come,
Again he's on the run,
Sunbeams shining through his hair,
Appearing non to have a intendance.
Well, option up your gear and Gypsy roll on, roll on.

The Allman Brothers Ring, lyrics

After the fire, a still small vox.

If I follow the light in which I believe I tin can do only practiced.

Although she sleeps, her memory lives on.

May her soul savour glory.

In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, clamorous in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways. Edith Wharton

Biblical Epitaphs

I am my beloved's and his desire is for me. Song of Solomon seven:10

He will wipe every tear from their eyes. At that place will be no more decease, or mourning or crying or hurting, for the one-time order of things has passed away. Revelation 21:4

That whoever believes in him may take eternal life. John 3:15

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

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Matthew 5:8

They tin no longer dice; for they are like the angels. They are God's children, since they are children of the resurrection. Luke 20:36

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

Whosoever believeth in Him should non perish, but accept eternal life. John 3:15

I have fought the good fight, I accept finished the race, I take kept the organized religion. 2 Timothy four:7

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

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

Sleep on at present, and accept your rest. Matthew 26:45

In all things showing yourself to be a blueprint of good works; in doctrine showing integrity, reverence, incorruptibility. Titus two:7

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

Until the day break, and the shadows abscond away. Cant. ii:17

Whither m goest, I volition become. Ruth 1:16

He shall receive in the world to come eternal life. Mark 10:30

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

Well washed, thou good and true-blue servant. Matthew 25:21

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

Let my love come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits. Song of Solomon 4:xvi

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

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

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

Rise up, my love, my fair one and come away
For lo, the winter is by, the rain is over and gone. Song of Solomon 2: ten-13

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

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