VJ Memorials

We know how hard it can be to express your feelings during this time of loss.  Writing an epitaph is an ideal way to honor the life of your loved one and the life you shared together.  Adding a favorite quote, a meaningful bible verse or your own special reflections of their life can add that unique touch to your memorial.

This can be the perfect opportunity to highlight their distinctive personality or any special accomplishments.  Maybe they were a teacher who dedicated their lives to educating others or a nurse who spent their life selflessly caring for the sick.  However you to decide to display your feelings, your epitaph is an opportunity to impart to the world the significance of the one you love. 

Here are some samples of epitaphs to help guide you in choosing the right one for you and your family.

General

G1 Your love will light our way. Your memory will forever be with us.

G2 You were strong.  You were wise. You were loved.

G3 What we keep in memory is ours unchanged forever.

G4 Remembered always

G5 Gone but never forgotten

G6 My dearest and best friend – the world has lost a very special person

G7 So loving – So loved

G8 Always close in mind and in heart

G9 Loving memories last forever. We can never forget you.

G10 Now at Peace

G11 A Friend to all

G12 Still in memory you are with us, as you always were before

G13 Your memory is a light to guide us

G14 A generous & beautiful spirit

G15 Of generous heart and rare understanding

G16 You enriched our lives with your kindness, wisdom, and love

G17 We meet each day in our garden of memories.

G18 You have filled our hearts with a lifetime of loving memories

G19 Forever our spirit and strength

G20 May your journey continue in peace

G21 What we gave, we have; what we spent, we had; what we left, we lost. Life’s race well run, Life’s work well done, Life’s victory won, Now cometh rest.

G22 In loving and graceful memory

G23 To live in the hearts of those we love is not to die

G24 There is no darkness in all the world to put out the light of one small candle

G25 Dry up your tears, and weep now more, I am not dead, but gone before, remember me, and bear In mind, you have not long to stay behind.

G26 Rest in peace until we meet again

G27 Warm summer sun, shine kindly here; warm southern wind, blow softly here; Green sod above, lie light – lie light – Good-night, dear heart, good-night

G28 Of generous heart…and of beautiful spirit

G29 Oh how beautiful was life to me

G30 The saddened hearts were healed in knowing the pain of life is over and the beauty of the soul revealed

G31 In whom lived always love of family, understanding & a kind heart

G32 Love forever true

G33 Nothing can ever take away the love a heart holds dear

G34 The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty if their dreams (E. Roosevelt)

G35 Your devotion to your family is our blessing

G36 Your love will never be forgotten

G37 Kind, loving, and faithful

G38 Gentle of heart…faithful and just

G39 To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die

G40 The night is long that never finds the day (Shakespeare)

G41 There never was a night that has not morn (Craik)

G42 Look not here for what I have done, look all around you

G43 Your life was devoted to the happiness of others

G44 The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving (O.V. Holmes)

G45 A friend to many and sadly missed

G46 Wherever he met a stranger, there he left a friend

G47 A good and kind heart is the best of all qualities

G48 Laughed often and loved much

G49 Our love goes with you and our souls wait to join you

G50 Till the sun grows cold, and the stars are old, and the leaves of the judgment book unfold (Taylor)

G51 And so make life, death and that vast forever one grand sweet song (Kingsley)

G52 Light after darkness, gain after loss, strength after weakness, crown after cross (Frances Havcrgal)

G53 Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound (Herman Melville)

G54 Step softly, a dream lies buried here

G55 The kindness of a beautiful life, well lived from start to close, lives on in cherished memory

G56 But O for the touch of a vanished hand and the sound of a voice that is still

G57 Heroes live beyond the tomb

G58 If I were to begin life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more (Jules Renard)

G59 It’s hard to look back on any gain in life that does not have a loss attached to it

G60 Life is not forever. Love is.

G61 Love is life, and death at last crowns it eternal and divine

G62 Till memory fades and life departs; you will live forever in our hearts

G63 To know, to esteem, to love and then to part, makes up life’s tale to many a feeling heart

G64 I shall remember while the light lives yet, and in the nighttime I shall not forget (Swinburne)

G65 Love is love forevermore

G66 Nothing can ever take away the love a heart holds dear

G67 Love is not love that alters with the flight of time; love is enduring, changeless, constant and divine

G68 The heart that has truly loved never forgets but as truly loves on to the close

G69 There are no barriers that love cannot conquer

G70 Commonly we stride through the out-of-doors to swiftly to see more than the most obvious and prominent things.  For observing nature, the best pace is a snail’s pace (Edwin Way Teale)

G71 Peace is when time doesn’t matter as it passes by (M. Schell)

G72 Ever remembered, ever loved

G73 Fond memories linger every day, remembrance keeps you near

G74 Time cannot steal the treasures that we carry in our hearts

G75 Sleep peacefully

G76 Beloved one, farewell

G77 Goodnight, good sleep, good rest from sorrow

G78 No cloud crosses the sun but passes at the last and gives us back the face of God once more (Kingsley)

G79 A free spirit

G80 …And let there be no sorrow; for remember when the sun goes down, it returns with a bright tomorrow. So, a toast to the past; a toast to the future…

G81 Beyond is the infinite morning of a day without a tomorrow

G82 I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday and I love today

G83 While we have time, let us do good

G84 By cloudless starlight on he treads, and thinks no lamp so cheering as the light which Heaven sheds (Moore)

G85 The hours part us but they bring us together again

G86 Till memory fades and life departs; you will live forever in our hearts

G87 Your loving kindness and fortitude brightened our days

G88 Till we shall meet and never part (Henry King)

 

General – His/Her

G89 Beloved Wife, Mother, Grandmother and Great-Grandmother

G90 Our wonderful Father

G91 Loving Daughter

G92 A very special Lady

G93 A caring Sister, Aunt, and Friend

G94 A loving Father, tender and kind, what a beautiful memory you left behind

G95 His words were kindness, his deeds were love

G96 Her memory is a light to guide us

G97 He had a long and happy life

G98 She loved her God, her world, and her family

G99 She lived her years with grace, charm and courage

G100 He will be missed

G101 His joy was his family

G102 She gave so much and asked for so little

G103 He was life’s greatest

G104 He lived his life to the fullest

G105 He guided us with courage and love

G106 She loved life

G107 A beautiful memory he left in our hearts forever

G108 He cared for others

G109 After the night comes the morning, bidding all darkness cease…After life’s cares and sorrows, his comfort, sweetness and peace

G110 His courage, his smile, his grace, gladdened the hearts of those who have the privilege of loving him

G111 A woman of virtue, kindness and modesty

G112 Her memory is a light to guide us

G113 O, that he had one more song to sing

G114 Good-night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest

G115 This is the grave of__________, who died maintaining his right of way. His right was clear, his will was strong. But he’s just as dead as if he’d been wrong

G116 Who devoted his life to the pursuit of truth and the defense of freedom and who lies here in the country he loved and made his home

G117 His last words were unspoken, he never said “Good-bye,” he was gone before he know it and only God knows why

G118 The best Dad/Mom a daughter/son could ever have

G119 She gave her heart to her family

G120 Her friendship was an inspiration, her love a blessing, a friend to many

G121 Honest in his ways, trusted in word, beloved by friends

G122 He had a kindly word for each and dies beloved by all

G123 She touched everyone with special love and kindness

G124 When she passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music

G125 Our love for her is boundless

 

Religious

R400 There is no death. Those who have passed from sight are just asleep, to wake again, like the trees and the blossoms in God’s own springtime

R401 She loved the Lord with all her heart, with all her mind and with all her spirit

R402 And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever

R403 God called him home to eternal rest

R404 Thy God has claimed thee as his own

R405 He has kept the faith

R406 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith (2 Timothy)

R407 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills (Psalm 121:1)

R408 Of such is the kingdom of heaven (Matt. 19:14)

R409 Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world (Matt. 28:20)

R410 Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God. (Matt. 5:8)

R411 …Send us to Hell or Heaven or where you will, promise us only, you’ll be with us still: Heaven without you, would be dull to bear, and Hell will not be Hell if you are there

R412 At rest with Jesus; asleep with Mary

R413 For the Lord Jesus Christ’s sake, do all the good you can, to all the people you can, in all the ways you can, as long as ever you can

R414 The Lord hath need of him

R415 Her years on this earth were but few, but Jesus had taught her to pray, and Jesus her savior she knew, before she was summon’d away

R416 He died a good member of society; he filled up his days with usefulness and resigned himself to God’s will

R417 Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted (Matt. 5:4)

R418 Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life (John 11:10)

R419 Behind the dim unknown, standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own

R420 Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal

R421 Father, not my will but thine be done (Luke 22:42)

R422 For to this end Christ died and rose again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living

R423 And what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love tenderly, and to walk humbly with thy God

R424 Be of courage and he shall strengthen thine heart

R425 Behold the Lamb of God…who takes away the sin of the world (John 5:29)

R426 The spirit shall return unto God who gave it (Ecc. 12:7)

R427 Come Lord from the skies and command us to rise to the mansions of glory above

R428 God gives us love, someone to love he lends us

R429 Greater love than this no one has, that one lay down his life for his friends (John 15:13)

R430 Have pity on me, at least, you, my friends…because the hand of the Lord hath touched me

R431 I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die

R432 I know that my redeemer lives, therefore I too shall live

R433 In thee, O Lord, have I put my trust

R434 It is I; be not afraid (Matt. 14:27)

R435 Let our Father’s will be done

R436 May he/she be remembered as he/she remembered others

R437 May his soul rest in peace

R438 Not lost to memory. Not lost to love. But gone to our Father’s house above

R439 Passive in his Holy will, trust I in my Master still

R440 Peace be with God

R441 Lord, thank you for a beautiful life

R442 May God be with you and comfort you

R443 God could not have made earthly ties so strong to break them in eternity

R444 He gave thee, he took thee, and he will restore thee

R445 She passed through Glory’s morning gate and walked in Paradise

R446 Too good for earth, God called him home

R447 His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than words, was simply doing good

R448 Tears are often a telescope by which men see far into Heaven

R449 When Christ ascended triumphantly, from star to star, he left the gates of Heaven ajar

R450 God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image, of his own eternity

R451 Where he leads me I can safely go (Millay)

R452 then the just will shine forever… (Matt.13:43)

 

Children

C800 A sunbeam from the world has vanished

C801 God took him home, it was his will, but in our hearts we love him still

C802 Now I lay be down to sleep

C803 Our precious baby girl/boy

C804 Blessed are the pure of heart for they shall see God (Matt. 5:8)

C805 Safe in the arms of Jesus

C806 And a little child shall lead them

C807 Awaiting the touch of a little hand, and the smile of a little face

C808 Budded on earth to bloom in Heaven

C809 But still I dream that somewhere there must be the spirit of a child that waits for me

C810 Children are the heritage of the Lord

C811 Children bring their own love with them when they come

C812 Father, Mother, weep not for me, for I am in Glory, waiting for thee

C813 God’s garden has need of little flowers

C814 He shall gather the lambs within his arms

C815 Called by one who loves him/her dearly

C816 Lord we give you our littlest angel

C817 No jewel is as perfect as the innocence of childhood

C818 Ours for a little while, with Jesus forever

C819 Sleep my little one, sleep

C820 So little, yet so loved

C821 So small, so sweet, so soon

C822 My child on earth, God’s angel in Heaven

C823 We will love you always

C824 What would the world be to us if the children were no more?

C825 An angel visited the green earth and took a flower away

 

Companion

L1200 The sweetest days I’ve found, I’ve found with you

L1201 A love such as ours occurs but once in a lifetime

L1202 Sing the lovers’ litany; love like ours can never die!

L1203 They were lovely and amiable in their life, and were not parted in death

L1204 We lived together in happiness, now we rest together in peace

L1205 Their love will last an eternity

L1206 Where our sorrows and our trials, like a dream, will pass away and our souls shall dwell forever in the realms of an endless day

L1207 We remain together forever; cherished by eternal memories

L1208 Even death shall not keep us apart

Last updated on May 19, 2020 by Support Pages