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No.1) Gone, but not forgotten.
No.2) In loving memory.
No.3) To live in the hearts of those we love is never to die.
No.4) Entered into rest.
No.5) Until we meet again.
No.6) I shall but love thee better after death.
No.7) Forever in our hearts.
No.8) Always in our hearts.
No.9) At rest with God.
No.10) Rest in Peace.
No.11) Too well loved to ever be forgotten.
No.12) Asleep in Jesus.
No.13) Ever of thee I’m fondly dreaming.
No.14) Home with God, which is far better.
No.15) Ours for a little while, with Jesus forever.
No.16) Everlasting life through Christ.
No.17) Asleep in Christ Jesus.
No.18) Beloved of the Lord.
No.19) The song is ended, but the melody lingers on. Rest is thine, sweet memory ours.
No.20) Sweetly sleeping.
No.21) Should we lose each other in the shadow of the evening trees I will wait for you, and should I fall behind, wait for me.
No.22) Loving memories last forever.
No.23) Hasten, oh blessed hour of reunion
No.24) A treasured life together.
No.25) Not lost to memory, not lost to love, but gone to our Father’s house, above.
No.26) Step softly, a dream lies buried here.
No.27) Your love will light my way, your memory will ever be with me.
No.28) What we keep in memory is ours unchanged forever.
No.29) Death is only a shadow across the path to heaven.
No.30) At the going down of the sun, and in the morning we will remember them.
No.31) He longest lives who most to others gives, himself forgetting.
No.32) May the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace.
No.33) He gave thee, He took thee, and He will restore thee.
No.34) God could not have made earthly ties so strong to break them in eternity.
No.35) A treasured life together.
No.36) In beloved and abiding memory of ….All that we were to each other that we still are.
No.37) Bring me sunshine.
No.38) What a love was theirs.
No.39) Loved so well.
No.40) Love as much as possible in this imperfect world.
No.41) Our lives are poorer without you.
No.42) One in joy, light and love.
No.43) We will be with you in spirit.
No.44) The best is yet to be. Robert Browning
No.45) David (or insert name) Beloved (in this case David actually means beloved but you could insert any name such as John Beloved)
No.46) He/She came and went and never ceased to smile.
No.47) Cover lightly, gentle earth. Ben Jonson
No.48) Loved and was loved.
No.49) We loved him.
No.50) How many hopes lie buried here?
No.51) Glory is praise for deeds which have been done. Cicero
No.52) We shall meet beyond the river.
No.53) Ever of thee I'm fondly dreaming. George Linley
No.54) In memory is the most beautiful refuge. Paolo Cognetti, The Eight Mountains
No.55) I am gone into the fields to take what this sweet hour yields. Shelley
No.56) I’ll see you on the other side of the stars.
No.57) A broken melody.
No.58) Love is enough.
No.59) So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more. Tennyson
No.60) The moon rose over an open field. Simon and Garfunkel
No.61) When it is dark enough you can see the stars. Charles A Beard
No.62) Your life was a blessing, Your memory a treasure.
No.63) Loved with everlasting love.
No.64) May the earth lie light upon thee.
No.65) In loving and grateful memory of …
No.66) Good and faithful servants.
No.67) In their death they are not divided.
No.68) In memory of my sweet ideal.
No.69) What then is death, asked the Sufi. It is like a holy mirror reflecting purity; so lovers of wine can drink deep from the font of immortality.
No.70) To know him was to love him.
No.71) Those who seek me with all their heart shall find me where they least expect.
No.72) Behind the clouds is the sun still shining. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
No.73) My sun sets to rise again. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
No.74) Keep my memory green. Charles Dickens
No.75) I’m the guiding light in your dreams and I’ll be travelling by your side
No.76) Hitch your wagon to a star. Emerson
No.77) Speak your love still once again.
No.78) Safe home at last.
No.79) They loved each other and taught us that love.
No.80) At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember him.
No.81) Who falls for love of God shall rise a star. Jonson
No.82) Back home with the friends I knew.
No.83) We are stardust.
No.84) I Am What I Am.
No.85) I Am Yours.
No.86) With the sun and the skies and the birds above me.
No.87) The pleasure was all ours.
No.88) Time passes, love remains.
No.89) Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. Emory Austin
No.90) Silent alone amid a Heaven of Song. Keats
No.91) In the garden wet with rain, and our souls were young again. adapted from lyrics by Van Morrison
No.92) Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.
No.92) And if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
No.93) Bearing much fruit.
No.94) Softly at night
No.95) The stars are shining on you.
No.96) I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
No.97) Birthless and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit for ever. The Bhagavad-Gita Book 2
No.98) Keep smiling.
No.99) Your life was a blessing, your memory a treasure.
No.100) Love forever true.
No.101) Bend closer, listen, I love you. Alden Nowlan
No.102) Just whisper my name in your heart and I will be there.
No.103) We are eternal beings having a temporary human existence. Wayne Dyer Into the sunshine.
No.104) Gone. And the light of all our life gone with him/her.
No.105) I together with thee.
No.106) Sing a song of joy and bless on earth our peaceful days. Thomas Campion
No.107) My second self and best earthly companion. Charlotte Bronte
No.108) Find sanctuary by the whispering shady trees.
No.109) Lo, one we loved.
No.110) Meet me in heaven.
No.111) The Lord is my shepherd.
No.112) The song is ended but the melody lingers on…Irving Berlin
No.113) Real love stories never have endings.
No.114) Tears water our growth. William Shakespeare
No.115) If winter comes, can spring be far behind? Shelley
No.116) Dance, then, wherever you may be. Sydney Carter, from Lord of the Dance
No.117) It is the spirit that builds for itself a body. Schiller
No.118) In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
No.119) Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. Walt Whitman
No.120) Do anything, but let it produce joy. Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
No.121) Grief is the price we pay for love. Queen Elizabeth II
No.122) Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling. Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
No.123) Say not ‘Good-night’ but in some brighter clime, bid me ‘Good-morning.’ Anna Laetitia Barbauld
No.124) Fair winds and following seas.
No.125) And life is all the sweeter that he/she lived.
No.126) I’m the guiding light in your dreams and I’ll be travelling by your side.
No.127) Loved and lost awhile.
No.128) The people you love become ghosts inside of you, and like this you keep them alive.
No.129) Be good to one another.The sweetest thoughts in life are memories of days that have been.
No.130) In quietness and confidence.
No.131) I shall be one with the sun wind and flowers.
No.132) My God I know this place. I am home. Cardinal Joseph Bernardin
No.133) I come into the peace of wild things. Wendell Berry
No.134) And if God choose
I shall but love thee better after death. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
No.135) Those whom the gods love die young. Meander
No.136) So we’ll go no more a -roving
So late into the night. Lord Byron
No.137) Loved with such love, and with such sorrow mourned. Wordsworth
No.138) Then in the hush of twilight…I shall come home. Wilkinson
No.139) You are a song in our hearts forever.
No.140) Cover lightly gentle earth.
No.141) Morning has broken like the first morning.
No.142) Love had the final word.
No.143) Loved by so many.
No.144) So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings. Tolkein
No.145) I leave you with my legacy of love.
No.146) Love until the end of time.
No.147) The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. Cicero
No.148) How strange this fear of death! We are never frightened at a sunset. George MacDonald
No.149) Many waters cannot quench love. Song of Solomon
No.150) Love itself will slumber on. Shelley
No.151) Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up. Ralph Waldo Emmerson
No.152) Nothing divine dies.
No.153) Dance On.
No.154) Nothing gold can stay. Robert Frost
No.155) Our all.
No.156) Give thanks always for all things.
No.157) Lead, kindly light.
No.158) Entered into light.
No.159) My life begins here.
No.160) We love thy memory.
No.161) Lights will guide you home.
No.162) No one thinks of winter when the grass is green. Kipling
No.163) May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Virgil
No.164) Grace to be born and live as variously as possible.
No.165) Let the world have its own things; the spirit seeks the stars.
No.166) The past is not dead, it is living in us. William Morris
No.167) May your shadow never shorten.
No.168) You're always in my head.
No.169) A long life well lived.
No.170) Sleep till eternity.
No.171) If you can remember me, I will be with you always. Isabel Allende
No.172) Frolic in the land of forever with me. Rae Hachton
No.173) Time passes, love remains.
No.174) We remember…..(name) …. With open hearts
No.175) The kingdom of Heaven is within you.
No.176) I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
No.177) Your love will light our way.
No.178) We in spirit
Still live, love and commune
With all on Earth
No.179) There is rest in Heaven.
No.180) There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet
As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet. Thomas Moore
No.181) Though I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands,
I will find out where she has gone,
And kiss her lips and take her hands. YB Yeats
No.182) All day the fronds the windblown tree soar and flap and shudder as though it thinks it can fly,
As though it wanders in the skies, travelling who knows where, wheeling past the stars— Rabindranath Tagore
No.183) I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glint on snow.
I am the sun on ripened grain.
I am the gentle Autumn rain. Mary Elizabeth Frye
No.184) Into this Universe, and why not knowing,
Nor whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing;
And out of it, as Wind along the Waste,
I know not whither, willy-nilly blowing.
― Omar Khayyám, The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam
No.185) But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restor'd, and sorrows end. Shakespeare
No.186) And so when I remember you
I think of all things good and true.
No.187) Do noble things, not dream them all day long,
And so make life, death and that vast forever one grand sweet song.
No.188) Like stars to their appointed height they climb,
…..And move like winds of light on dark and stormy air. Keats
No.189) And bursting in its beauty and its might
From trees and beasts and men into the Heaven's light. Keats
No.190) The dawn is not distant,
Nor is the night starless;
Love is eternal!
God is still God, and
His faith shall not fail us;
Christ is eternal! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
No.191) Grieve not,
Nor speak of me with tears, But laugh
And talk of me
As if I were beside you. Isla Richardson
No.192) There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will. Shakespeare
No.193) Make me this present then: your hand in mine,
and we’ll live out our lives in it.
Michael Donaghy
No.194) Never the spirit was born; the spirit shall cease to be never;
Never was time it was not; end and beginning are dreams!
Birthless and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit for ever. Edwin Arnold, 'The Song Celestial'.
No.195) One brief moment and all will be as it was before only better, infinitely happier and forever we will all be one together with Christ. Henry Scott Holland
No.196) Ah, the souls of those that die
Are but sunbeams lifted higher. Longfellow
No.197) When love, who sent, forgot to save
The young, the beautiful, the brave. Lord Byron
No.198) Tho' lost to sight, to memory dear
Thou ever wilt remain.
No.199) And the beat goes on
Just like my love everlasting
And the beat goes on
Still moving strong on and on. The Whispers
No.200) That twilight of enchanted days -
The imperishable past. Frederick Myers
No.201) Or soar aloft to be the spangled skies
And gaze upon her with a thousand eyes. Coleridge
No.202) The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? Edgar Allan Poe
No.203) Hope is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart; it transcends the world that is immediately experienced, and is anchored somewhere beyond its horizons. Václav Havel
No.204) I am yours.
However distant you may be,
There blows no wind but wafts your scent to me,
There sings no bird but calls your name to me.
Each memory that has left its trace with me
Lingers forever as a part of me.
First Verse
First Verse
I am yours.
No.205) Derek and the Dominos
To the world he/she was just a part,
To me he/she was the world.
No.206) May the winds of heaven blow softly and whisper in your ear, how much we love and miss you and wish that you were here.
No.207) Those we love and lose
are always connected by heartstrings
into infinity. Terri Guillemets
No.208) Fear no more the heat o' the sun,
Nor the furious winter's rages. Shakespeare
No.209) God's in His heaven-
All's right with the world! Robert Browning
No.210) And time has told me
Not to ask for more
So someday our ocean
Will find its shore
Nick Drake
No.211) I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end. Khalil Gibran
No.212) Bright are the stars that shine
Dark is the sky
I know this love of mine
Will never die.
The Beatles
No.213) Oh, will wonders ever cease?
Blessed be the mystery of love. Sufjan Stevens
No.214) Spirit of my silence I can hear you…. And I long to be near you. Sufjan Stevens ( from the song Death with Dignity)
No.215) Somewhere in the desert there’s a forest, and an acre between us. Sufjan Stevens.
No.216) When sunset flows into golden glows,
And the breath of the night is new,
Love finds afar eve’s eager star—
That is my thought of you.
Robert Underwood Johnson—Star Song.
No.217) And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness, --
Round our restlessness, His rest.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
No.218) The unreal has no being, the real never ceases to be.
You grieve for those who should not be grieved for.
The wise grieve neither for the living nor for the dead.
Never at any time was I not, nor thou, nor these princes of men,
nor shall we ever cease to be here after.
Widsom from the Bhagavad Gita
No.219) Would that I were the heaven, that I might be
All full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.
No.220) Good-night, sweet friend, good-night:
Till life and all take flight,
Never good-bye.
W E Henley
No.221) The measure of a life is a measure of love and respect.
The way you live, the gifts that you give.
In the fullness of time, a garden to nurture and protect
taken from lyrics by RUSH "The Garden"
No.222) So long as men can breathe, and eyes can see,
so long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
No.223) 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 blue of the sky. Amelia Burr
No.224) I fall asleep in the full and certain hope that my slumber shall not be broken;
and that, though I be all-forgetting, yet I shall not be all-forgotten,
but continue that life in the thoughts and deeds of those I have loved.
- Samuel Butler
No.225) I found myself saying goodbye
it was a signal not of a parting but of a uniting.
Helen Thomas
No.226) Be there at our sleeping and give us we pray
your peace in our hearts Lord at the end of the day.
Jan Struther
No.227) Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight. Rossiter W. Raymond
No.228) My day was happy - and perchance
The coming night is full of stars.
Captain Richard Molesworth Dennys
No.229) Because of you we will be glad and gay,
Remembering you we will be brave and strong;….
And you will speed us onward with a cheer,
And wave beyond the stars that all is well.
Maurice Baring
No.230) Let your soul stand cool and composed
before a million universes.
Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
No.231) And we find at the end of a perfect day
The soul of a friend we've made.
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
No.232) For all we know this might only be a dream
We come and go like a ripple on a stream.
Nat King Cole
No.233) What I do, and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
No.234) Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear,
too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice,
but for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke
No.235) Thou tun'st this World below, the Spheres above,
Who in the Heavenly Round to their own Music move.
Purcell
No.236) We all shine on...like the moon and the stars and the sun...we all shine on...come on and on and on...
John Lennon
No.237) Dare to be different. Represent your maker well and you will forever abide in the beautiful embrace of his loving arms.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
No.238) O may I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again
In minds made better by their presence.
George Eliot
No.239) Earth is crammed with heaven, and every common bush is afire with God.
And only those who see take off their shoes; the rest sit around and pluck blackberries.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
No.240) One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more.
John Donne
No.241) A thousand years you said
As our two hearts melted.
Lady Heguri
No.242) Death has made his darkness
Beautiful with thee.
Tennyson's In Memoriam, LXXIV
No.243) But glad to have sat under
Thunder and rain with you,
And grateful too
For sunlight on the garden.
Louis MacNeice
No.244) And one fine morning in a sunny lane
Some boy and girl will meet and kiss and swear
That nobody can love their way again
While over there
You will have smiled, I shall have tossed your hair.
Charlotte May Mew
No.245) Fear no more the heat o' the sun,
Nor the furious winter's rages.
Shakespeare
No.246) What sound was that?....
It was the breath
we took when we first met.
Listen. It is here.
Harold Pinter
No.247) Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul,
While the stars burn, the moons increase,
And the great ages onward roll.
Alfred , Lord Tennyson
No.248) It was beautiful
As long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
Tagore
No.249) After life's fitful fever
He sleeps well.
Shakespeare
No.250) I have to believe
That you still exist,
Somewhere.
Ann Thorp
No.251) And after the sunset
In the unknown night
Joy cannot cease.
David Geoffrey Collins
No.252) Happy Have We Met
Happy Have We Been
Happy Did We Part
Happy Meet Again
No.253) The soul,
From earth's control
Released, sees Heaven's light.
Joseph Turner
No.254) Drop Thy still dews of quietness,
Till all our strivings cease;
Take from our souls the strain and stress,
And let our ordered lives confess
The beauty of Thy peace.
John Whittier
No.255) Be there at our sleeping, and give us, we pray,
Your peace in our hearts, Lord, at the end of the day.
Jan Struther
No.256) "Who plucked this flower?"
"I" said the master
And the gardener
Held his peace
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