Popular Epitaphs

• A Legacy of love and strength

• A Life well Lived

• Always in our hearts

• Always in our thoughts

• Always our inspiration

• Back home with the friends I knew

• Bring me sunshine

• Dearly departed

• Dearly missed

• Forever in our hearts

• Gave so much and asked so little

• Gone but not forgotten

• In eternal life

• In God’s care

• Love as much as possible in this imperfect world

• Loved beyond measure

• Love is enough

• Loved so well

• May the earth lie light upon thee

• Rest in peace

• Ride no faster than your guardian angel can fly

• Safely home at last

• Sowed on earth to reap in heaven

• There is no ending without a begining

• Too well loved to ever be forgotten

• Until we meet again

• We are stardust

• We will be with you in spirit

• Your love is our guide, your memory our treasure

• Your warmth and wisdom left the world a better place

Epitaphs for Mother

• A gentle heart and guiding light

• A Mother’s love is eternal

• Always loving, always loved

• Beloved mother, forever in our hearts

• Her kindness lives on in all she touched

• Her love was the heart of the home

• In loving memory of a beautiful soul

• She came and wend and never ceased to smile

• She gave so much and asked so little

Epitaphs for Father

• A father’s love never fades

• A guiding hand and steady heart

• Always strong forever loved

• Beloved father and protector

• Gone from our sight, but never our hearts

• He came and went and never ceased to smile

• He taught us courage and kindness

• His legacy lives on through us

• In memory of a noble man

• To know him was to love him

Epitaphs for companion headstones

• A treasured life together

• All that we were to each other we still are

• Always together

• As one

• Reunited

• Side by side then and now

• Together forever

• United in life and death

• What a love was theirs

Epitaphs for children

• A light that shone so briefly but so brightly

• A Moment in our arms, forever in our hearts

• Always our baby

• Budded on earth to bloom in heaven

• Carried to heaven on angel wings

• God’s tiniest angel

• Loved beyond measure, missed beyond words

• No one spread more love in such a short lifetime

• Our little angel, forever loved

• So sweet, so small so soon

• The moment I held you in my arms my heart felt coplete

• Too precious for this world

Celebrity Epitaphs

• Gracie Allen & George Burns:  Together Again

• John Belushi:  I may be gone, but Rock and Roll lives on

• Mel Blanc:  that’s all folks

• Charles Bukoski:  Don’t try

• Johnny Cash:  Psalm 19:14:  Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer

• Winston Churchill:  I am ready to meet my maker.  Whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

• Ian Curtis:  Love will tear us apart

• Rodney Dangerfield:  There goes the neighborhood

• Bette Davis:  She did it the hard way

• Joe DiMaggio:  Grace dignity and elegance personified

• Wyatt Earp:  Nothing so sacred as honor and Nothing’s so loyal as love

• Robert Frost:  I had a lover’s quarrel with the world

• Judy Garland: I’ll come to you smiling through the years

• Jackie Gleason:  And away we go

• Merv Griffin:  I will not be right back after this message

• Rita Hayworth:  To yesterday’s companionship and tomorrow’s reunion

• Betty Hutton:  Loved by all

• Robert “Evel” Knievel:  A man can fall many times in l ife but he’s never a failure if he tries to get up

• Don Knotts:  He saw the poignancy in people’s pride and pain and turned it into something hilarious and endearing

• Michael Landon:  He seized life with joy.  He gave to life generously.  He leaves a legacy of love and laughter

• Martin Luther King:  Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty I’m free at last

• Jack Lemmon:  In

• Jayne Mansfield:  We live to love you more each day

• Dean Martin:  Everybody loves somebody sometime

• Gary Moore:  Loved beyond the stars

• Jim Morrison:  KATA TON DAIMONA EAYTOY (Greek) Translation: Truth to your own spirit

• Leslie Nielsen:  Let ‘er rip

• Edgar Allen Poe:  Quoth the raven, Nevermore

• Dee Dee Ramone:  OK…I gotta go now

• Will Rogers:  I never met a man I didn’t like

• George Bernard Shaw:  I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen

• Frank Sinatra:  The Best is yet to come

• James Stewart:  For he shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways

• Ritchie Valens:  Come on let’s go

• John Wayne:  Tomorrow is the most important thing in life, comes into us at midnight very clean.  It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday

• Billy Wilder:  I’m a writer, but then nobody’s perfect

• Hank Williams:  I’ll never get out of this world alive

• Natalie Wood:  More than Love

Bible passages used for epitaphs

• Psalm 23:1:  The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want.

• Psalm 23:4:  I will fear no evil, for you are with me.

• Psalm 46:10:  Be still, and know that I am God.

• Psalm 116:15:  Precious in the sight of the lord is the death of his faithful servants.

• 1 Corinthians 13:8:  Love never fails

• John 11:25:  I am the resurrection and the life

• John 14:27:  Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you.

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

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

• 2 Timothy 4:7:  I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

• Romans 8:38-39:  Nothing shall separate us from the love of God.

• Philippians 1:21:  To live in Christ, and to die is gain.

• Revelation 21:4:  He will wipe every tear from their eyes.

Quotes used for epitaphs

• Behind the clouds is the sun still shinning.  – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• Birthless and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit for ever.  – The Bhagavad-Gita

• Don’t grieve.  For what we lose comes around in another form.  – Rumi

• Hitch your wagon to a star. – Ralph Waldo Emmerson

• In my end is my beginning.  – T S Eliot

• In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count.  It’s the life in your years.  – Abraham Lincoln

• Keep my memory green. – Charles Dickens

• Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.  – Walt Whitman

• Silent alone amid a heaven of song.  – Keats

• So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.  – Tennyson

• Sorrow looks back.  Worry looks around.  Faith looks up.  – Ralph Waldo Emmerson

• Tears water our growth.  – William Shakespeare

• The past is not dead, it is living in us.  – William Morris

• The song is ended but the melody lingers on…. – Irving Berlin

• When it is dark enough you can see the stars.  – Charles A Beard