Poems, quotes & words of remembrance

Sometimes the hardest part is finding the words.

Browse quotes, poems, prayers and words of thanks — gathered to help families find the right words for their loved one.

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When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.

In our memories and in our hearts, love lasts forever...

Beautiful memories silently kept, of one that we loved and will never forget.

A special person, a special face, someone we love and can’t replace. Never selfish, always kind, these are the memories you left behind.

You left us beautiful memories, your love is still our guide, and though we cannot see you, you’re always by our side.

If memories bring you closer, we are never far apart. Not a day will I forget you, you’ll always be in my heart.

In our memories and in our hearts, love lasts forever.

You left us peaceful memories, your love is still our guide. And though we cannot see you, you are always at our side.

Words are few, thoughts are deep, memories of you, we will always keep.

Your life was a blessing, your memory a treasure. You are loved beyond words, and missed beyond measure.

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

Still loved, still missed, still very dear.

Those we love can never be more than a thought apart. For as long as there is memory, they’ll live on in the heart.

Forever in our hearts.

In life we loved you dearly, in death we love you still. In our hearts you hold a special place, no one will ever fill.

As long as hearts remember, as long as hearts still care. We do not part with those we love, they’re with us everywhere.

To live in the hearts of those we love is to never die.

Deep in our hearts a memory is kept, of one we loved and shall never forget.

For all of us you gave your best, now the time has come for you to rest. So go in peace, you’ve earned your sleep, your love in our hearts, we’ll eternally keep.

A smile for all, a heart of gold. The very best the world could hold.

Gone are the days we used to share but in our hearts you’re always there. Never more than a thought away loved and remembered every day.

Always loved, never forgotten, forever missed.

It’s hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember.

Missing you always, remembering you forever.

Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Mother Teresa

Your life was love and labour, your love for your family true. You did your best for all of us, we will always remember you.

Those we love remain with us, for love itself lives on. And cherished memories never fade, because a loved one’s gone.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

Winnie the Pooh

To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.

Dr. Seuss

Gone is the face we love so dear, gone is the voice we loved to hear. Too far away for touch or speech, but not too far for love to reach.

Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day. Unseen, unheard, but always near, still loved, still missed, and very dear.

Love you past the moon. Miss you beyond the stars.

There are some people you will never forget and some giggles you will always hear.

May the winds of love blow softly, and whisper for you to hear. That we’ll always love and miss you, and wish that you were here.

There are some who bring a light so great to the world, that even after they have gone, the light remains.

Love is a bond that death cannot part. Gone from my arms but forever in my heart.

I know a smile I would love to see, a loving face so dear. I know a hand I would love to hold, a voice I long to hear. I know a heart thoughtful and true, I know them all, because I loved you.

People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget the way you made them feel.

If I had a single flower for every time I think of you, I could walk forever in my garden.

Claudia Adrienne Grandi

You can no longer see me, but please know that I am there. I am the flowers in the garden, I am the wind beneath your hair.

Sherry Rockhill

She/He lived and loved with kindness and courage.

Sweet is the sleep that ended the pain, we would not wake you to suffer again.

A true hero isn’t measured by the size of his strength but by the strength of his heart.

Hercules

We never said goodbye to you, but that was just as well. We never could have said goodbye, to one we loved so well.

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.

Dr. Seuss

Gone yet not forgotten, although we are apart. Your spirit lives within me, forever in my heart.

A golden heart stopped beating, hardworking hands at rest. God broke our hearts to prove to us, He only takes the best.

Your memory is a keepsake, with which we will never part. God has you in His keeping, we have you in our hearts.

God saw you getting weary and did what He thought best. He put His arms around you and took you home to rest.

It broke our hearts to loose you, but you didn’t go alone. For part of us went with you, the day God called you home.

No farewell words were spoken, no time to say goodbye. You were gone before we knew it, and only God knows why.

Your painful days are over, your sleepless nights are through. For heaven has called an angel, an angel as brave as you.

I will hold you in my heart until I can hold you in heaven.

We know you’d be with us today if heaven wasn’t so far away.

Earth has one gentle soul less and heaven has one angel more.

A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.

Maya Angelou

At heaven’s gates she will be waiting, with that same sweet loving smile. For she is gone before us, just a little while.

Just a prayer from the family who loved you, just a memory fond and true. In our hearts you will live forever, because we thought the world of you.

If tears could build a stairway, and memories were a lane. I would walk right up to heaven, and bring you home again.

I think of heaven as a garden where I shall find again those dear ones who have made my world.

Minnie Aumonier

May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand.

Irish Blessing

Our hearts ache with sadness, and tears still flow. What it means to loose you, no one will ever know.

Say not in grief: “He is no more”, but live in thankfulness that he was.

Hebrew Proverb

I cannot bring the old days back, your smile I cannot see. I can only treasure the memories, of days that used to be.

There is no need for tears, I am at peace, my soul is at rest. There is no pain, I suffer not, for with your love, I was so blessed.

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

Abraham Lincoln

There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others.

Mandy Hale

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.

Kahlil Gibran

The best portion of a good man’s life His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Kahlil Gibran

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

James M. Barrie

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose; all that we love deeply, becomes a part of us.

Helen Keller

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Pericles

The song is ended, but the melody lingers on...

Irving Berlin