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not;me,
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ShelleyThere blows no
diamond glint on Please select…DrMrMrsMissMsSirLadyReverendin the beautiful
thousand eyes.may be,
I am the
soulwill forever abide
thee with its However distant you
blow.summer in her
well and you Which gazes on
I am yours.thousand winds that
Who bears eternal different. Represent your maker
heaven of night,
horizons. Václav HavelI am a
seasons rollDare to be
spirit were yon somewhere beyond its
stars— Rabindranath Tagorevain the envious
John LennonO that my
immediately experienced, and is anchored where, wheeling past the
For her in
Purcell
Plato
world that is skies, travelling who knows
Held his peace
move.
gaze on thee.
the heart; it transcends the
wanders in the
And the gardener
their own Music love-lit eyes to spirit, an orientation of
As though it "I" said the master
Heavenly Round to All full of
orientation of the fly,
flower?"Who in the be
Hope is an thinks it can
"Who plucked this below, the Spheres above,were the heaven, that I might
other begins? Edgar Allan Poeas though it
Jan StrutherThou tun'st this World Would that I
ends, and where the flap and shudder
of the day.Henry Van Dyke
Bhagavad Gitawhere the one
tree soar and
our hearts, Lord, at the end who love, time is eternity.
Widsom from the vague. Who shall say
fronds the windblown Your peace in
but for those be here after.
best shadowy and All day the
our sleeping, and give us, we pray,those who rejoice,
ever cease to
Death are at
her hands. YB Yeats
Be there at those who grieve, too short for
nor shall we
divide Life from
lips and take
John Whittier
too long for
of men,
The boundaries which And kiss her
Thy peace.
those who fear,
not, nor thou, nor these princes thousand eyes. Coleridge
has gone,
The beauty of
who wait, too swift for
time was I
her with a
out where she ordered lives confess
slow for those
Never at any
And gaze upon
I will find
And let our Time is too the dead.
spangled skiesand hilly lands,
and stress,
its own grapes. Elizabeth Barrett Browningliving nor for
to be the
Through hollow lands souls the strain
must taste of neither for the
Or soar aloft old with wanderingTake from our
dream include thee, as the wine The wise grieve The imperishable past. Frederick Myers
Though I am strivings cease;
What I do, and what I for.enchanted days -
meet. Thomas Moore
Till all our Nat King Cole
not be grieved That twilight of
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Headstone Epitaphs: Expert Advice with 200+ Beautiful Ideas
the bright waters dews of quietness,stream.
those who should on and on. The Whispersin whose bosom Drop Thy still ripple on a You grieve for Still moving strong As that vale
What is an epitaph?
Katherina von Schlegelgo like a ceases to be.goes onso sweetbrightly shine.We come and no being, the real never And the beat world a valley shall but more dreamThe unreal has love everlastingin the wide Through passing clouds
Why are epitaphs important?
only be a Elizabeth Barrett BrowningJust like my There is not life divineknow this might Round our restlessness, His rest.goes onThink of me.Be still, my soul: the Sun of For all we around our incompleteness, --And the beat are buried here.Joseph TurnerCarrie Jacobs-Bondto think God's greatness flowed remain.
How many hopes Released, sees Heaven's light.a friend we've made.And I smiled Thou ever wilt Always with youFrom earth's controlThe soul of Robert Underwood Johnson—Star Song.Tho' lost to sight, to memory dearNor beneath youThe soul,daythought of you.The young, the beautiful, the brave. Lord ByronNeither above youHappy Meet Againof a perfect That is my When love, who sent, forgot to savein Heaven.
Partat the end eve’s eager star—lifted higher. LongfellowThere is rest Happy Did We And we find Love finds afar Are but sunbeams EarthBeenWalt Whitman, Song of Myself
is new,those that die
With all on Happy Have We universes.
of the night Ah, the souls of Still live, love and commune
Metbefore a million And the breath
together with Christ. Henry Scott HollandWe in spirit
Happy Have We composedinto golden glows,
all be one light our way.David Geoffrey Collinsstand cool and When sunset flows forever we will Your love will
Joy cannot cease.Let your soul between us. Sufjan Stevens.better, infinitely happier and candle-light. Elizabeth Barrett Browning,night
Where can I find epitaph examples?
Maurice Baringdesert there’s a forest, and an acre was before only Most quiet need, by sun and In the unknown all is well.
Somewhere in the be as it of every day'ssunsetthe stars that
Death with Dignity)and all will to the level And after the And wave beyond you. Sufjan Stevens ( from the song One brief moment I love thee Ann Thorpwith a cheer,to be near ever. Edwin Arnold, 'The Song Celestial'.
How do I choose an epitaph?
you.Somewhere.speed us onward hear you…. And I long the spirit for
Heaven is within exist,And you will silence I can and changeless remaineth The kingdom of That you still and strong;….Spirit of my Birthless and deathless We remember…..(name) …. With open heartsbelievewill be brave mystery of love. Sufjan Stevensare dreams!Time passes, love remains.I have to
Remembering you we Blessed be the it was not; end and beginning with me. Rae HachtonShakespeareglad and gay,cease?Never was time land of forever He sleeps well.we will be Oh, will wonders ever
never;Frolic in the After life's fitful feverBecause of you The Beatlescease to be with you always. Isabel AllendeTagoreDennysWill never die.was born; the spirit shall remember me, I will be my life.Captain Richard Molesworth love of mine
Never the spirit If you can The journey of stars.I know this Michael DonaghySleep till eternity.it lastedis full of skyit.well lived.As long as The coming night
Dark is the our lives in A long life It was beautifulhappy - and perchancestars that shineand we’ll live out my head.Alfred , Lord TennysonMy day was Bright are the mine,You're always in ages onward roll.our sight. Rossiter W. Raymondhas no end. Khalil Gibranpresent then: your hand in never shorten.And the great the limit of end of time, for my being Make me this May your shadow burn, the moons increase,
is nothing save exist till the we will. Shakespearein us. William MorrisWhile the stars only a horizon; and a horizon all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall Rough-hew them how not dead, it is living Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul,immortal; and death is I existed from ends,The past is Harold PinterLife is eternal; and love is Nick Drakethat shapes our the stars.Listen. It is here.Jan StruthershoreThere's a divinity things; the spirit seeks we first met.of the day.Will find its were beside you. Isla Richardsonhave its own we took when at the end oceanAs if I Let the world
List of epitaphs and headstone quotes
breathour hearts Lord So someday our mepossible.It was the your peace in for moreAnd talk of
Beautiful Short Epitaphs
as variously as that?...
prayNot to ask me with tears, But laugh
born and live What sound was give us we told me
Nor speak of
Grace to be
Shakespeareour sleeping and
And time has
Grieve not,me. Virgilwinter's rages.
Be there at the world! Robert Browning
Christ is eternal! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
valley streams content Nor the furious Helen Thomas
All's right with not fail us;
and the gliding the heat o' the sun,of a uniting.heaven-His faith shall May the countryside
Fear no more a parting but God's in His
God, and
green. KiplingCharlotte May Mew
signal not of
immortal life. Richard JefferiesGod is still
the grass is tossed your hair.it was a
come. Now is eternity; now is the Love is eternal!
of winter when smiled, I shall have
saying goodbyeNothing has to night starless;
No one thinks You will have I found myself light-laden air.Nor is the
you home.While over there- Samuel Butlerfloats in the
not distant,
Lights will guide
againhave loved.
it; as the butterfly The dawn is memory.
love their way of those I sunshine. I am in into the Heaven's light. Keats
We love thy That nobody can thoughts and deeds
me in the beasts and men
here.swearlife in the
it. It is about From trees and My life begins
and kiss and but continue that
the midst of its mightEntered into light.
girl will meet not be all-forgotten,
now. I am in its beauty and Lead, kindly light.Some boy and all-forgetting, yet I shall It is eternity And bursting in
for all things.sunny laneand that, though I be
of far space.stormy air. KeatsGive thanks always morning in a broken;
the sun and on dark and Our all.
And one fine shall not be
night, the wonder of winds of light
stay. Robert FrostLouis MacNeicethat my slumber the sunshine, speaking in the
…..And move like Nothing gold can
the garden.and certain hope
the stars, pouring down in they climb,
is my beginning. T S EliotFor sunlight on in the full
Mystery gleaming in their appointed height In my end And grateful tooI fall asleep
winter's rages. ShakespeareLike stars to Dance On.with you,
of the sky. Amelia BurrNor the furious grand sweet song.
Nothing divine dies.
Thunder and rain in the blue
the heat o' the sun,
vast forever one Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up. Ralph Waldo Emmersonhave sat underto be lost
Fear no more life, death and that
slumber on. Shelley
But glad to on wingsinto infinity. Terri GuillemetsAnd so make
Love itself will Tennyson's In Memoriam, LXXIVup my gladness
by heartstringsall day long,quench love. Song of SolomonBeautiful with thee.
I have sent are always connected Do noble things, not dream them Many waters cannot his darkness
sorrow to die.and loseand true.sunset. George MacDonald
Death has made
shall have no
Those we love all things good
frightened at a Lady Heguriloved life I here.I think of
fear of death! We are never hearts melted.Because I have that you were
I remember you
How strange this As our two life to thee.
you and wish
And so when
living. Ciceroyou saidthis, and this gives love and miss
imagine the whole.memory of the A thousand years
so long lives
in your ear, how much we partialities. We have to placed in the John Donne
see,softly and whisper
only presented with the dead is be no more.men can breathe, and eyes can
of heaven blow because we are The life of
And death shall So long as May the winds
of the imagination
end of time.past, we wake eternally,by RUSH "The Garden"
world.
is an act Love until the
One short sleep taken from lyrics
To me he/she was the To see clearly of love.
Elizabeth Barrett Browningnurture and protect
a part,restor'd, and sorrows end. Shakespeare
with my legacy blackberries.
of time, a garden to he/she was just All losses are
I leave you around and pluck In the fullness To the world
on thee, dear friend,have their endings. Tolkeinoff their shoes; the rest sit you give.
Dominoswhile I think after fire, and even dragons who see take
live, the gifts that Derek and the
But if the So comes snow And only those
The way you I am yours.Khayyammany.
with God.love and respect.
First Verse― Omar Khayyám, The Ruba'iyat of Omar
Loved by so bush is afire a measure of
First Versewhither, willy-nilly blowing.final word.with heaven, and every common
a life is me.
I know not
Love had the
Earth is crammed
The measure of a part of the Waste,morning.George Eliot
W E HenleyLingers forever as it, as Wind along like the first presence.
Never good-bye.trace with me
And out of Morning has broken better by their all take flight,
has left its Nor whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing;
earth.In minds made Till life and
Each memory that knowing,
Cover lightly gentle againGood-night, sweet friend, good-night:
me.Into this Universe, and why not hearts forever.
dead who live Dylan Thomas
your name to gentle Autumn rain. Mary Elizabeth Frye
song in our Of those immortal have no dominion.
bird but calls I am the home. Wilkinson
invisibleLoved with such young. Meander
I shall but I come into
one with the memories of days you keep them
Still lovingdreams and I’ll be travelling
And life is full-dazzling. Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
price we pay sunshine - and shadows will years in your
It is the If winter comes, can spring be melody lingers on…Irving Berlin
heaven.For what we
companion. Charlotte Bronteof joy and life gone with beings having a Just whisper my
Your life was Birthless and deathless I love thee after death.
the shade of were young again. adapted from lyrics
Silent alone amid Time passes, love remains.
and the skies
We are stardust.
shall rise a
sun and in They loved each
to a star. EmersonI’m the guiding
still shining. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
their heart shall To know him
a holy mirror
divided.
…May the earth
Your life was field. Simon and Garfunkel
Love is enough.I’ll see you
I am gone Ever of thee Glory is praise Loved and was
John Beloved)David (or insert name) Beloved (in this case We will be as possible in
Bring me sunshine.All that we A treasured life attribution because although
two people.inscription below ground epitaph. Sometimes when there can be as
be a good not you can by the length
speaks to your same time don’t forget the
to them. Try to find one. The words should
the most important hear her voice
with you in
choose might be lines themselves, a message that example. A couple of
timeless message to grandmother”, you might want character or achievements
have settled a
first, and for that
such as “so loved”. Try to focus 1. An epitaph tells When choosing an
hours looking around of books, where there might an end and
find poetry the this tomb, may golden soil
one:that followed tended
lasting leaves, with beauties hung,
intertwine
Around the tomb of some lines
the earliest of of the departed.
historically reflect the
likely stemmed from
the world such
Epitaphs are probably also be a
words might take
Longer Epitaphs and Headstone Quotes
love for our Greek practice of inscription on a or form of
graves here.200 beautiful epitaph And let light Ooooooo hooooo
That tonight's gonna be a good good
That tonight's gonna be we say
Saturday to SundayAround the clock Feel the shot
(rock, rock, rock, rock)Let's do it,Let's do it, and do it, and do it,
roofLet's paint the Mazel Tov (l'chaim)sofa (c'mon)smash it (smash it)money (I'm paid)(hey!)
That tonight's gonna be 'Cause...upagainWe'll shut it
dancingcontrolI wanna let
And go outI know that God
Let's spend it Tonight's the nighta good night
hush of twilight…I shall come the night. Lord Byron
gods love die choose
know this place. I am home. Cardinal Joseph Bernardin
I shall be in life are inside of you, and like this
Still livinglight in your
following seas.all his beams
Grief is the always toward the In the end, it’s not the
the Dancegrowth. William Shakespeare
ended but the Meet me in Don’t grieve.and best earthly Sing a song of all our We are eternal
Bend closer, listen, I love you. Alden NowlanKeep smiling.
can reach. Elizabeth Barrett Browningshining on you.love thee better
and rest under wet with rain, and our souls
heart. Sing anyway. Emory Austinall ours.With the sun knew.
love of God down of the last.
Hitch your wagon green. Charles Dickensis the sun me with all
font of immortality.death, asked the Sufi. It is like they are not
grateful memory of love.stars. Charles A Beard
over an open A broken melody.
yields. Shelleyrefuge. Paolo Cognetti, The Eight Mountains
beyond the river.
lie buried here?Cover lightly, gentle earth. Ben Jonson
name such as yet to be. Robert Browning
One in joy, light and love.
Love as much
Reunited.….
mistakes.the source and
secret exchange between to add an
“less is more” when choosing an on the headstone a stone can
are allowed, and whether or in part determined
choosing something that generations to come, but at the them, to feel closer
visit your loved on one of stone, as I will
“we will be
4. The words you deeper than the about mortality, love, beauty, God, loss, hope, or nature for 3. It conveys a
in the family, such as “much-loved mother and something about the choosing a headstone, when your emotions
very hard at few simple words have several purposes:will discover.
said or wrote, and other gravestones. I have spent inspiration include lyrics, literature, especially the beginning every sentence is look but I burning lamp before such as this The Roman epitaphs Then shall thy
thy boughs and shade
as this translation been going since
of the life
immortality and epitaphs
monuments. Their invention most
ancient structures in makes us human.
things to do, but it can the task crafted
of showing our a tomb’, from epi ‘upon’ + taphos ‘tomb’ and originates with
died, especially as an as a phrase
beautiful headstones for list of over
free bookletnight
a good night
That tonight's gonna be And I'm feeling (ooooo hoooo)You know what
Friday, SaturdayUp and downtop (top, top, top, top)
We gotta rock Let's do it,Let's do it,Let's burn the offcup (drink)Jump off that Go out and
I got my Tonight's the night a good nightLet's do itLet's live it And then we'll do it townLook at her
And losing all
outdown
offLike oh my moneya good, good night
that tonight's gonna be Then in the So late into Those whom the
And if God My God I confidence.
one another.The sweetest thoughts love become ghosts awhile.
I’m the guiding
Fair winds and
splendid, silent sun with
produce joy. Walt Whitman, Leaves of GrassKeep your face
body. Schillerbe. Sydney Carter, from Lord of Tears water our
The song is Lo, one we loved.
trees.My second self thee.Gone. And the light will be there.Love forever true.ever. The Bhagavad-Gita Book 2height my soul
The stars are choose, I shall but
over the river In the garden
song in your
The pleasure was I Am Yours.
the friends I Who falls for
At the going Safe home at by your sideKeep my memory Behind the clouds Those who seek
deep from the What then is In their death In loving and Loved with everlasting can see the The moon rose stars.this sweet hour
the most beautiful We shall meet How many hopes
ceased to smile.could insert any
The best is poorer without you.
Loved so well.still are.
abiding memory of there are no
worth double checking can see it, it becomes a
above ground, we've been asked Fergus often says
the words chosen
of the stone. The reverse of the stone you choose will be the importance of of time for
some secret with you when you
5. This brings me I visit the
recently died wanted poem will understand.
at something much
and think. It might be
captures their essence, such as “uncompromisingly unique”.describe their position
tell the world a year before
grief. This can be your loved one, often in a that it can know what you and what they Other sources of
Every phrase and places you can thee. Whoever places a
lovely examples though he sung.
vine.Sweet ivy wind Wind, gentle evergreen, to form a
are beautiful such tradition that has
it, and a celebration of transcendence and
to be sepulchral
writing. Even the most literature on what the most difficult
sadness and hope, is similar to
been a way
ephitaphios ‘over or at person who has Oxford English dictionary
examples of our Following this advice, there is a • Send me a a good good
(oooooo hoooo) that tonight's gonna be a good nightparty every dayus
Wednesday, and ThursdayRound and roundNow we on Here we go
And do it, and do it, and do it, do it, do it,Let's do it, let's do it,down (shut it down)
Just take it Fill up my
God)up)up)
a good, good night(ooooo hoooo) that tonight's gonna be Let's do it,
Let's do it, and do it, and do it,
roofLet's paint the Mazel Tov
out spaced outI feel stressed If we get
Let's get get
smash itI got my That tonight's gonna be
I gotta feeling sorrow mourned. Wordsworth
more a -roving
after death. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
wild things. Wendell Berryflowers.
In quietness and
Be good to
The people you Loved and lost that he/she lived.brighter clime, bid me ‘Good-morning.’ Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Give me the Do anything, but let it in your years. Abraham Lincoln
for itself a Dance, then, wherever you may never have endings.
my shepherd.in another form. Rumi
the whispering shady our peaceful days. Thomas CampionI together with
Into the sunshine.heart and I treasure.
the spirit for and breadth and Softly at nightAnd if God
Let us cross Song. Keatswon't be a
above me.I Am.Back home with
him.us that love.still once again.dreams and I’ll be travelling to rise again. Elizabeth Barrett Browningthey least expect.
him.wine can drink my sweet ideal.
servants.thee.treasure.dark enough you are no more. Tennyson
side of the
to take what In memory is
have been done. CiceroWe loved him.went and never beloved but you
spirit.
Our lives are was theirs.other that we In beloved and
to be accurate, I cannot guarantee epitaph to stone, it would be though no one on the stone
words themselves, which is why
longer inscription. The space around to the back the size of The words you a memorial and stand the test
your loved one, to share in heal, comfort and console
visit.comfort me when your loved one. For example, my mother who
read the whole poem might hint
in to stop this, with something which one. Although people often
2. An epitaph may waiting at least love for them, rather than your
you felt about bear in mind and you never
or quotation, your loved one epitaph.in Little Gidding:
There are many
lie light upon more repetitive. There are some of the lays
and the clustering laid.
tomb of Sophocles:
earliest Greek epitaphs is thus a the life beyond we often share
pyramids are supposed the art of
discover the wonderful
is one of love, shaped with both Epitaphs have always from the Greek
memory of a defined in the quotes. You can see them.
free booklet
That tonight's gonna be I gotta feeling That tonight's gonna be Pa pa pa
get get with Monday, Tuesday,Rock it don't stop (stop, stop, stop, stop)Easy go
Here we comeupagain
We'll shut it dancing (move it, move it)
off
God (like oh my up (let's spend it
up (let's live it That tonight's gonna be I gotta feeling Let's do it,
Let's do it,
Let's burn the
offcupLet's go way it allballsofaGo out and
up
a good night[4x]You are a
love, and with such So we’ll go no love thee better
the peace of sun wind and that have been.
alive.
Still mineby your side.all the sweeter Say not ‘Good-night’ but in some
for love. Queen Elizabeth IIfall behind you. Walt Whitmanlife that count. It’s the life spirit that builds far behind? Shelley
Real love stories
The Lord is lose comes around
Find sanctuary by bless on earth
him/her.
temporary human existence. Wayne Dyername in your
a blessing, your memory a and changeless remaineth
to the depth
Bearing much fruit.the trees.
by Van Morrison
a Heaven of
Some days there and the birds
I Am What star. Jonson
the morning, we will remember
other and taught Speak your love
light in your
My sun sets find me where was to love
reflecting purity; so lovers of In memory of Good and faithful lie light upon
a blessing, Your memory a When it is So sad, so fresh, the days that
on the other
into the fields I'm fondly dreaming. George Linleyfor deeds which
loved.
He/She came and David actually means
with you in this imperfect world.
What a love
were to each together.
I have tried Before committing an
level and even is no room
important as the
place for a
add an inscription
of the inscription. This, in turn, will depend on heart.
healing power of something that will
make you smile, to think of
purposes, which is to
each time I spirit” on her stone. These words will
something spoken by only those who
lines from a
the world, which draws people
to expand on
of your loved
little.reason, we always advise
on celebrating your the world how
epitaph you might
churchyards for inspiration
be a poem a beginning. Every poem an
most inspiring source. TS Eliot wrote cover his ashes.
Adieu Septimia; may the earth
to be shorter
Prove grateful emblems With blushing roses
where Sophocles is found on a
times. Some of the Choosing an epitaph
pathos of death, the joy of
an underlying feeling
as the Egyptian
as old as
wonderful opportunity to
on. Choosing an epitaph loved ones. The act of
delivery funeral orations.tombstone. The word derives words written in
An epitaph is
ideas and headstone perpetual shine upon
• Send me a a good night
nighta good nightParty every day
Get get get (clock, clock, clock, clock)
Body rockEasy come
Let's do it, do it, do it, do it
Let's live it And then we'll do it
town (paint the town)Look at her Let's get get
Like oh my
Let's spend it Let's live it
a good night
[2x]
And do it, and do it, and do it, do it, do it,
Let's do it, let's do it,downJust take it
Fill up my it goAnd just lose
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we'll have a
