A Selection of Epitaphs

1. Absent from the body, Present with the Lord.

2. I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
3. I am the resurrection and the life. He that believeth in
Me,though he were dead, yet shall he live.
4. I go to prepare a place for you that where I am, there
you may also be.
5. Neither height, nor depth, nor anything else in all
creation, will separate us from the love of God that is in
Christ Jesus our Lord.
6. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no
one can snatch them out of My hand.
7. Our brief partings on earth will appear one day as nothing
beside the joy of eternity together.
8. After the night comes the morning, bidding all darkness
cease... After life's cares and sorrows, His comfort,
sweetness and peace.
9. But many that are first shall be last and the last shall be
first.
10. He lived life to the fullest.
11. She filled every second of her life with laughter, love
and happiness.
12. Their greatest peace was found in nature...and those
moments spent crossing the next mountain.
13. He was filled with a zest for life that never grew old,
and kept him eternally young.
14. She is not far away.
15. While he lives cherished in our memories, he is never
far away.
16. They loved their Lord with all their heart, with all their
mind and with all their spirit.
17. A godly man who served the Lord all his days.
18. May God be with you and comfort you.
19. In God's care.
20. The Lord is my Shepherd.
21. May heaven's eternal joy be thine.
22. Love is eternal.
23. Where there is great love there are always miracles.
24. May she rest in peace with God.
25. Not my will but thine be done.
26. Blessed sleep to which we all.
27. Sweet in her ways, observant in her mitzvas.
28. Let her own works praise her at the gates.
29. Generous of heart, constant of faith.
30. Out of sorrow God speaks to us best.
31. I know that my redeemer lives, therefore I too shall
live.
32. He gives His beloved sleep.
33. God grant us love...Something to love He lends us.
34. Our love goes with you and our souls wait to join you.
35. In His will is our peace.
36. Unto them that love God, all things work for good.
37. And I will give you rest.
38. Trust in God.
39. May the peace of the Lord be with you.
40. For to this end Christ died.
41. I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills.
42. All things change but God remains.
43. God is our refuge and our strength.
44. All things to the glory of God.
45. And flights of angles sing thee to thy rest.
46. Whither thou goest I will go.
47. Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
48. What we keep in memory is ours forever.
49. A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
50. Always in our hearts.
51. Gone from home but not from our hearts.
52. We lived together in happiness, we rest together in
peace.
53. Love lives on.
54. She touched everyone with special love and kindness.
55. We miss you.

56. A free spirit.

57. Our little angel.
58. An inspiration to all.
59. We love you always.
60. With all my love.
61. There was grace in her steps, love in every
gesture.
62. Forever young, forever in our hearts.
63. Life is not forever. Love is.
64. May she be remembered as she remembered
others.
65. A life full of years of understanding.
66. Of tender heart and generous spirit.
67. Peace is thine and sweet remembrance is ours.
68. A woman of virtue kindness and modesty.
69. Your patient courage is a beloved memory.
70. She graced her family with acts of loving
kindness.
71. Precious are the memories of
72. How beautiful life was to me.
73. Her works were kindness, her deeds were love.
74. Tender mother, a faithful friend.
75. A friend to many and sadly missed.
76. Our love is forever.
77. Wonderful was your love for us.
78. Love never ends.
79. They gave their today for our tomorrow.
80. Loving memories last forever.
81. He loved and was loved.
82. Too well loved to ever be forgotten.
83. Love makes memory eternal.
84. To live in the hearts of others is not to die.
85. Gone fishin'
86. A gentle man.
87. She loved everyone.
88. He touched the lives of many.
89. While we have time, let us do good.
90. As the bird free of its cage seeks the heights So
the Christian soul in death flies home to God.
91. The saddened hearts were healed in knowing the
pain of life is over and the beauty of the soul
revealed.
92. I have fought the good fight. I have finished my
course. I have kept the faith.
93. Rest, O weary traveler, for with the dawn comes
great joy.
94. I am not afraid of tomorrow, For I have seen
yesterday and loved today.
95. If our love could have saved him, He would not
have died.
96. Step softly, a dream lies buried here.
97. God grant us the serenity to accept the things
we cannot change, the courage to change the
things we can and the wisdom to know the
difference.
98. Great love lives on.
99. His courage, his smile, his grace gladdened the
hearts of those who have had the privilege of
loving him.
100. It's hard to look back on any gain in life that
does not have a loss attached to it.
101. Those we love remain with us for love itself lives
on.
102. But O for the touch of a vanished hand and the
sound of a voice that is still. -Tennyson
103. For they conquer who believe they can. -Virgil
104. They who forgive most, shall be most forgiven. -
Bailey
105. The unity that binds us all together that makes
this earth a family and all men brothers and the
sons of God is love. -Wolfe
106. I am going the way of the earth. Joshua 23:14
107. Yea though I walk through the valley of the
shadow of death I will fear no evil, for thou art with
me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Psalms
23:4
108. Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be
comforted. Matthew 5:4
109. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain
mercy. Matthew 5:7
110. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see
God. Matthew 5:8
111. In the Cross of Christ I glory.
 Bible Verse Epitaphs
Promises from our Father above that emphasize the peace we seek in our lives. If
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B- 1
Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.
23rd Psalm

B- 2
Believe on Him to life everlasting.
1 Timothy 1:16

B- 3
He shall receive in the world to come eternal life.
Mark 10:30

B- 4
The righteous shall go into life eternal.
Matthew 25:46

B- 5
Whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.
John 3:15

B- 6
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Matthew 5:8

B- 7
He that endureth to the end shall be saved.
Matthew 10:22

B- 8
The Lord hath given him rest from all his enemies.
11 Samuel 7:1

B- 9
Thy remembrance shall endure into all generations.
102nd Psalm

B- 10
I thank my God upon every remembrance of you.
Philippians 1:3
 B- 11
He that believeth in the Son hath everlasting life.
John 3:16

B- 12
I rejoice in thy salvation.
1 Samuel 2:1

B- 13
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.
23rd Psalm

B- 14
This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well please.
Matthew 3:17

B- 15
Blessed is the man who maketh the Lord his trust.
Psalms 40:4

B- 16
Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden.
Matthew 11:28

B- 17
Sleep on now, and take your rest.
Matthew 26:45

B- 18
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Matthew 5:4

B- 19
...Well done, thou good and faithful servant.
Matthew 25:21

B- 20
I am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead yet
shall he live.
John 11:25

B- 21
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
John 14:1

B- 22
...All things work together for good to them that love God.
Romans 8:28
 B- 23
...Be thou faith unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
Revelation 2:10

B- 24
...Not my will, but thine be done.
Luke 22:42

B- 25
The Lord watch between me and thee, while we are absent, one from the other.
Genesis 31:49

B- 26
For with thee is the foundation of life: in the light shall we see light.
Ps.xxxvi:9

B- 27
God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
1 John iv:16

B- 28
Greater love than this no one has, that one lay down his life for his friends.
John xv:13

B- 29
This is the promise... the life everlasting.
1st Epistle of John ii:25

B- 30
For of such is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew xix:14

B- 31
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.
11 Tim.1v:7my

Religious Epitaphs

1 He sleeps in Jesus, blessed sleep from which none ever wakes to

weep
2 If God so will, I know that will is love
3 Dying is but going home
4 This life is but a passing dream, we soon shall wake in heaven
5 May the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in
peace
6 He gave thee, He took thee, and He will restore thee
7 God could not have made earthly ties so strong to break them in
eternity
8 God gives us memories so that we might have roses in December
9 He/She reigns with Him on high
10 Death is merely a shadow cast across the walkway to heaven
11 Hasten, oh blessed hour of reunion
12 Not lost to memory! Not lost to love!
But gone to the Lord’s house above
13 Our beautiful son/daughter, who learned to crawl on earth and walk
in heaven
14 Ours for a moment, with our Lord forever
15 Everlasting life through Christ
16 At peace in Christ Jesus
17 Beloved of the Lord
18 At rest in Jesus
19 At peace with God
20 Joy is prayer – Joy is strength – Joy is love – Joy is a net of love by
which you
can catch souls
21 God’s finger touched her/him and she/he slept
22 We have kept the faith
23 May his/her/their memory lead us close to you, O Lord
24 I will dwell in the house of the Lord
25 Faith – to suffer, to die and to rise again
26 Love one another as I have loved you
27 Home with Jesus
28 Lord have mercy upon us
29 God has you in his keeping
30 Home is not home without thee

This is the promise...the life everlasting. (John 2: 25)

Believe in Him to life everlasting. (1 Timothy 1: 16)
I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears - Psalms 34:4
And now abide Faith, Hope, Love, These Three; but the greatest of these is Love-1 Corinthians
13:13
Blessed is the man that maketh the Lord his trust. (Psalm 40: 4)
Sleep on now, and take your rest. (Matthew 26: 45)
Well done, thou good and faithful servant. (Matthew 25: 21)
All things work together for good to them that love God. (Romans 8: 28)
Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. (Revelation 2: 10)
The Lord watch between me and thee, while we are absent, one from the other. (Genesis 31: 49)
But the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 6:23)
God is love: and He that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. (1 John 4: 16)
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest (Matthew 11:28)
For of such is the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 19: 14)
I have fought the good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. (II Timothy 1: 7)
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. (23rd Psalm)
I rejoice in thy salvation. (1 Samuel 2: 1)
He that believeth in the Son hath everlasting life. (John 3: 16)
I thank my God upon every remembrance of you. (Philippians 1: 3)
The Lord hath given him rest from all his enemies. (II Samuel 7: 1)
He that endureth to the end shall be saved. (Matthew 10: 22)
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. (Matthew 5: 8)
He shall receive in the world to come eternal life. (Mark 10:30)
For with Thee is the fountain of life: in the light shall we see light. (Psalm 36: 9)
Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord (James 3:10)
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with
me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me (Psalm 23:4)
So you have pain now; but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take
away your joy from you (John 16:22)
He heals the broken hearted and binds up their wounds (Psalm 147:3)
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of
whom sall I be afraid? (Psalms 27:1)
To live is Christ; and to die is gain (Philippians 1:21)
In him was life; and the life was the light of men (John 1:4)
The gift of God is eternal life (Romans 6:23)
God will provide (Genesis 22:8)
The Father is in me, and I in Him (John 10:38)
This is the day the Lord has made, rejoice and be glad (Psalm 118:24)
Blessed are they that have not seen and have yet believed (John 20:29)
But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they
will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint (Isaiah 40:31)
Not my will, but Thine be done (Luke 22:42)
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. (Matthew 5:4)
Thy remembrance shall endure into all generations (102nd Psalm)
Whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. (John 3:15)
The righteous shall go into life eternal (Matthew 25:46)
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. (John 1:5)
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
(Matthew 7:7)
I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in darkenss, but will have the light
of life. (John 8:12)
Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. (John 14:1)
I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies. (John
11:25)
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last (Revelation 22:13)
1. Beyond is the infinite morning of a day without tomorrow. (W.S. Abbott)
2. But in the night of death hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. (Ingeresoll)
3. Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure. (Sir Oliver Lodge)
4. Death is the golden key that opens the palace of Eternity. (Milton)
5. Dust thou art, to dust returnest, was not spoken of the soul. (Longfellow)
6. Each lonely scene shall thee restore. (William Collins)
7. Faith builds a bridge across the gulf of death. (Young)
8. Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er fraught heart and bids it break.
(Shakespeare)
9. He hath awakened from the dream of life. (Shelley)
10. Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound. (H. Melville)
11. Mercy to him that shows it is the rule. (Cowper)
12. Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory. (Shelley)
13. Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss. (Milton)
14. Nature’s loving proxy, the watchful mother. (Bulwer)
15. Now twilight lets her curtain down and pins it with a star. (L.M. Child)
16. Onward to thy glory! Tis always morning somewhere in the world. (R.H. Horne)
17. Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts, not amid joy. (Hemans)
18. The acts of this life are the destiny of the next. (Eastern proverb)
19. The end and the reward of toil is rest. (James Beattie)
20. The heart of him who truly loves is a paradise on earth. (Lamennais)
21. The soul that suffers is stronger than the soul that rejoices. (E. Shepard)
22. There hath pass’d away a glory from the earth. (Wordsworth)
23. There is a sweet job that comes to us through sorrow. (Spurgeon)
24. There never was night that had no morn. (D.M.N.Craik)
25. Things past belong to memory alone, things future are the property of hope. (John Home)
26. Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew. (Rudyard Kipling)
27. Tis not the whole of life to live, nor all of death to die. (J. Montgomery)
28. To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. (Leibnitz)
29. Until the day break, and the shadows flee away. (Cant. 2:1)
30. Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest. (Goethe)
31. Yet in this heart’s most sacred place, thou, alone, shall dwell forever. (Moore)
32. Come blooming youths, as you pass by, and on these lines do cast an eyes. As you are now, so once
was I. As I am now, so must you be. Prepare for death and follow me.
33. Grieve not for me my husband dear. I am not dead but sleeping here. With patience wait-perforce to die
and in a short time you’ll come to I.
34. It is well with me, why dost thou weep, as thou saw thy lov’d one in his last long sleep. As thou, lingerest
to gaze on my dwelling of clay forgetting my spirit in his white array.
35. Death is a debt to nature due which I have paid and so must you.
36. Though not till ninety some retire, yet monuments around declare, how vast the numbers who expire
while youth and beauty promise fair.
37. Frail as the leaves that quiver on the spray, like them man flourishes, like them decays.
38. Here in the silent grave I lie. No more the scenes of life to try.
39. There is a world above where parting is unknown. A long eternity of love, formed for the good above and
faith beholds the dying here, transplanted to the glorious sphere.
40. Like brilliant stars his virtues glowed, while for his lips wise counsel flowed. But when the close of life he
knew, smiling he bade this world adiew.
41. To sect or party his large soul disdained to be confined. The good he loved of every name and prayed
for all mankind.
42. The memory of the just are blessed.
43. Rest on thy sheaves. Thy harvest work is done.
44. Sudden he was called to go and bid adieu to all below. Sudden the vital spirit fled and he was numbered
with the dead.
45. Some happy years, of happy birth, were spent by me with friends on earth. Altho I’m gone to worlds
unknown, I hope to meet you all again.
46. Weep not children for your mother, she has gone far far above; far away from sin and sorrow, to the
home of joy and love.
47. Our mother sleeps. When will the morning come?
48. There is no Death! What seems so is transitions: This life of mortal breath is but a supurb of the life
elysian who so portal we call death.
49. Thy gentle voice now is hushed. Thy warm true heart is still and on thy young and innocent brow is
resting deaths cold chill.
50. Happy infant, early blest. Rest in peaceful slumber, rest.
51. She skied, but loved the sea, yet loved her family more. Thus she quietly waits in this beautiful place for
those who love the mountains and the snow.
52. Until the day break and the shadows flee away.
53. She thought of others ever, herself never. We can’t forget.
54. None knew thee but to love thee. None named thee but to praise.
55. Her soul, like a star, beacons from the abode where the eternal are.
56. Here shrined with many a sweet sad thought, that loved one’s memory lingers still.
57. While weeping o’er my silent grave, my friends believe it true, that when you’d toiled a few more days,
here waits a bed for you.
58. We only know that thou has gone, and that the same relentless tide which bore thee from us, still glides
on, and we who mourn thee with it.
59. She was a lady, proud and willful- yet kind and giving. Always faithful, with a joy of living. Her health was
frail. But her spirit was strong. She gave her all and now she is gone. She was one of a kind.
60. Brother, first to leave our band. Life’s song as yet unsung. While gray hairs gather on our brows, thou art
forever young.
61. We never lose the one we love forever. Though he’s gone, within the hearts of those who cared, his
memory lingers on.
62. He is like a tree planted near running water. That yields its fruit in due fade, whatever he does prospers.
(Psalm 1:3)
63. Love only knoweth whence it came and comprehendith love.
64. One by one earth’s ties are broken, as we see our love decay, and the hope so fondly cherished
brighten but to pass away. One by one our hopes grow brighter as we near the shining shore, for we know
across the river wait the loved ones gone before.
65. Precious darling, thou hast left us, left us yes, for ever more. But we hope to meet our loved one on that
right and happy shore.
66. A precious one from us has gone. A voice we loved is stilled. A place is vacant in our home, which never
can be filled.
67. No pain, no grief, no anxious fear, can reach our loved one sleeping here.
68. I take the little lamb, said he, and lay it on my breast. Protection he shall find in me and be forever blest.
69. No pain, no grief, no anxious fear can reach our darling here. They are gone from our home, but not
from our heart.
70. Morning has come to him, the long eternal day shines on the hills of paradise, and thee for aye, he
walks.
71. Good bye old friend, since you are gone, where will we find another, possessing all the qualities of
physician, guide, and brother?
72. When will the morning come? Beneath death’s icy blast she sudden fell in the bright morn of youthful joy.
73. Here stand still, here you can read. What you are, what you were and what we are. What we should
become, ashes and dust from this earth.
74. Happy the babe who privileged by fate to a shorter labour and a lighter weight. Reciv’d but yesterday the
gift of breath, ordr’d tomorrow to return to death.
75. Their toils are past, their work is done and they are fully blest. They fought the fight and victory won and
entered into rest.
76. The Loved are with us though they die, we think of them as in the sky. They are with us in the loneliest
spot and in the greatest crowd we forget them not.
77. Don’t mourn my loss what e’re you do. My leaving brings you closer to the loved ones I have left behind
and all the joys the future holds.
78. The benevolence of her heart, the sweetness of her temper, and the extraordinary endowments of her
mind obtained the regard of all who knew her, and the warmest love of her intimate connections. Their grief
is in proportion to their affection, they know their loss to be irreparable, but in their deepest affliction they are
consoled by a firm though humble hope that her charity, devotion, faith and purity, rendered her soul
acceptable in the sight of her redeemer. (Jane Austen’s grave)
79. This world to her was but a traged play, She came and saw’t, dislikt, and pass’d away.
80. Nothing can cover his high fame but heave. No pyramids set off his memories but the eternal substance
of his greatness. (John Fletcher)
81. There isn’t enough darkness in the world to quench the light of one small candle.
82. Steel-true and blade-straight the great artificer made my mate.
83. For it is not right that in a house the muses haunt mourning should dwell- such things befit us not.
84. As thou art so was I. As I am so shalt thou bee. As I was so are ye, and as I am so shall ye bee.
85. Blaze of lights and music calling, Music weeping, rising, falling, Like a rare and precious diamond, His
brilliance still lives on.
86. A poet is born not made.
87. Call not back the dear departed, anchored safe where storms are o’er. On the border land we left them,
soon to meet and part no more.
88. When we leave this world of changes, When we leave this world of care. We shall find our missing loved
one, In our father’s mansion fair.
89. Fast falls the silent tear, while oer the grave we bend. For now another pilgrim dear, has reached his
journeys end.
90. This is a grave but o have care. For world wide hopes are buried there. How much of light, how much of
joy is buried with a darling boy.
91. Mother thou art gone to rest. And this shall be our prayer. That when we reach our journey’s end, Thy
glory we may share.
92. Farewell poor world o have done with thee. Thy smiles I count not nor thy frowns I fear. My debt is paid,
my head lies peaceful here.
93. One we loved has left our number for the dark and silent tomb. Closed her eyes in deaths cold slumber.
Faded in her early bloom.
94. Weep not she is not dead but sleepeth.
95. Tell not in mournful numbers. Life is but an empty dream. For the soul is dead that slumbers and things
are not what they seem.
96. A mother kind, a wife so dear constant friend lies buried here. We mourn her loss while here we stay.
And hope to meet in bless someday.
97. For thee we need not weep since thou art now among the blest. No more by sin or sorrow press’d. but
hushed in quiet sleep.
98. How far that little candle throws his beams.
99. Farewell conflicting hopes and fears where lights and shades alternate dwell. How bright the unchanging
morn appears. Farewell inconstant world farewell.
100. Lived for his fellow man and died happy.
101. Alas how changed that lovely flower that bloomed and cheered our hearts.