Commemorative phrases and inscriptions for tombstones

This page deals with the theme of commemorative inscriptions and phrases, epigraphs, epitaphs, dedications for the deceased to be written or engraved on funerary plaques, burial niches, tombstones, ossuaries, columbariums, cemetery monuments.

The purpose is to offer useful ideas and suggestions for the preparation of commemorative phrases and inscriptions to be   on funeral stones.

This is a service that provides a collection of funerary writings selected from the web to be used for the composition of:

  • commemorative phrases for deceased
  • epigraphs
  • dedications
  • epitaphs
  • inscriptions
  • engravings on plaques
  • urn engravings
  • commemorative thoughts
  • citations

Commemorative phrases and inscriptions for tombstones on scrolls

When a loved one goes away forever, most of the time, in our heart, suddenly a void opens up with which, at least at the beginning, it is difficult to live with.

Often those close to the relatives of the deceased make their presence felt with loving advice and with encouragement to move forward.

Over time the thoughts towards the disappeared people, at first sad, are transformed in positive memories

Condolence, "cordŏlium" (heart that hurts) and mourning, "lugēre" (crying), are accompanied by the practical tasks of funeral and burial.

In the creation of the tombstone, relatives often want to leave a writing, a dedication, a thought in memory of the deceased (commemorative sentences, epigraphs, quotes, epitaphs, thematic dedications). In this case, our service "Commemorative phrases and inscriptions for tombstones" may come in handy.

Generally, the basic composition of a plaque includes: photo frame, flower-vase, memorial lamp, letters and numbers for the deceased's name and surname, with date of birth and death.

In addition, it is possible to enrich and embellish the plaque with floral decorations, like branches of roses or other flowers, and/or with memorial phrases, simple or poetic, to remember the deceased and pay homage to his memory.

These inscriptions can be composed on tombstones, on cemetery monuments or inside the noble chapels, using single letters, in bronze or steel, to be affixed directly on marble, or they can be engraved or printed on funeral accessories such as memorial scrolls or parchments and souvenir books.

Furthermore, for those who opt for the cremation of the body, these sentences can also be engraved or printed on the cremation urn for ashes.

In conclusion, below is a structured collection of thoughts, religious and lay people, which on the one hand aim to stimulate reflection and on the other hand can give beauty and added value to the tombstone to those who decide to use it.

The sentence collection has been classified into the following sections:

  1. Commemorative phrases for parents
  2. Famous commemorative phrases
  3. Famous memorial quotes
  4. Famous epitaphs

 

 

Commemorative phrases for parents

  1. Beloved by all who knew them

  2. Ours is love everlasting

  3. Forever together, Mum & Dad

  4. Life is not forever – love is

  5. Until we meet again

  6. Always together, never apart, joined as one heart

  7. Gone but not forgotten

  8. Treasured memories of our dear parents

  9. In loving memory of [insert name here]

  10. Beloved by all who knew him

  11. Rest in peace

  12. Your memory lives on

  13. Farewell

  14. Today, tommorrow, my whole life through. I will always love and remember you.

  15. In our hearts a memory is kept, of ones we loved and will never forget.

  16. Although we are apart, your spirit lives within me, forever in my heart

  17. Those we love don't go away. They walk beside us every day

  18. There is no death. Only a change of worlds

  19. Now I know why you always asked me to be strong… because you know that one day I would need the strength to bear your loss. I miss you, mom

  20. For every flower that I place on your grave, I think of all those things you did to make my life as beautiful and fragrant as a bed of flowers. I miss you, dad

  21. I wish I had the power to take back every pain, worry and hurt that I ever gave you. I love you, mom.

  22. Death leaves a heartache no one can heal. Love leaves a memory no one can steal

 

Famous commemorative phrases

  1. Life has to end, she said. Love doesn’t - Mitch Albom

  2. You were my home, Mother. I had no home but you - Janet Fitch

  3. If I had a flower for every time I thought of you … I could walk in my own garden forever. - Alfred Jennyon

  4. Whenever I am missing you, I also remember how fortunate I was that you were in my life. I wouldn’t trade those moments for the world. - Cindy Adkins

  5. I cannot forget my mother. She is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely. - Renita Weems

  6. My mother had a slim and small body, but a big heart - a heart so big that everyone's joys found welcome and hospitable accommodation. Mark Twain

 

Famous memorial quotes

  1. “If you can remember me, I will be with you always.” - Isabel Allende

  2. You were my home, Mother. ― Janet Fitch

  3. I miss the warmth of your gentle hug and the love I felt when my arms were wrapped around you. I miss seeing your beautiful smile and the sound of your voice saying my name. - Millie P. Lorenz

  4. We do not remember days, we remember moments. Cesare Pavese

  5. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. Theodore Geisel

  6. I'll remember you. When I've forgotten all the rest

    You to me were true. You to me were the best

    Bob Dylan

  7. There are no goodbyes. Where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart
    Ghandi

 

Famous epitaphs

  1. Good Friend, for Jesus’ sake forbear

    To dig the dust enclosed here:

    Blessed be the man that spares these stones,

    And curst be he that moves my bones.

    William Shakespeare

  2. And alien tears will fill for him

    Pity’s long broken urn,

    For his mourners will be outcast men,

    And outcasts always mourn.

    Oscar Wilde

  3. Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted. Sylvia Plath

  4. Here lies one whose name was writ in water. John Keats

  5. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death! Virginia Woolf

  6. I had a lover’s quarrel with the world. Robert Frost

  7. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

  9. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. K. Gibran

  10. To live in the hearts of those we love is not to die. Thomas Campbell

  11. Death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight. Rossiter Worthington Raymond

  12. For all we know this might only be a dream,

    we come and go like ripples in a stream. Nat King Cole

  13. No one thinks of winter when the grass is green. Rudyard Kipling

  14. Far Away, There In The Sunshine Are My Highest Aspirations. L. M. Alcott

  15. He who binds to himself a joy, Does the wingéd life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies, Lives in eternity’s sunrise. William Blake

  16. From my body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. Edvard Munch

  17. In His will is our peace. Dante

  18. Excuse my dust. Dorothy Parker