When your loved one passes away, you might choose one of these memorial quotes for engraving. They are inspiration for engraving on a piece of memorial jewellery (click here), on an urn, in a frame, a bench or for any memorial for pets and people. These are some phrases we’ve come across and ideas we have for using beautiful quotes. We also have a list of non-memorial and baby quotes here and Engraving Ideas for Gifts here for inspiration.
Engraved Text
Add your text – upper and lower case, numbers and punctuation and special characters to our engravable jewellery (click here). It will be deep black professional engraving, usually done in Arial font but please let us know if you’d prefer a different font. Perhaps you can choose Roman numerals, birth or marriage coordinates, or messages of love and memory. Here are some characters you can copy and paste: ! ❤ ✓ ☀ ☾ ★ ☽ ∞ ♫ 💧🐾
Popular Memorial Quotes
Forever in our hearts/forever in my heart
My love, my light, my boy 🐾
Loved forever
Never give up
Unbreakable love
Love you past the moon ☾ miss you beyond the stars ★ ★
Memories of you will last forever in my heart
I miss you. Forever in my heart
The worst goodbyes are the ones never said
Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day
I didn’t give you the gift of life, life gave me the gift of you
She walked in beauty
Your end, which is endless, is as a snowflake dissolving in the pure air
The love in our family flows strong and deep, leaving us memories to treasure and keep
Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest
Resting with those he/she loved
Death isn’t the last sleep: it’s the final awakening
The song is ended, but the melody lingers on…
It is not length of life, but depth of life
It’s the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love
Loving memories last forever
Until we meet again
His/Her friends were his/her world
She/He loved people and laughter
He/She would rather give than receive
The end and the reward of toil is rest
He/She always stood for what was right and good.
And for this we shall forever cherish his/her memory.
“You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us?” — Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Biblical Memorial Quotes
There are some beautiful quotes here but below we’ve listed a few of our favourites.
The righteous are taken away to be spared from evil -Isaiah 57:1
Your wings were ready but my heart was not
They will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them -Revelation 14:13
Be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of distress -Isaiah 33:2
And so we will be with the Lord forever -1 Thessalonians 4:17
My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me according to your word -Psalm 119:28
Whither thou goest, I will go -Ruth i:16
Other Religious Memorial Quotes
أَلاَ بِذِكْرِ اللَّهِ تَطْمَئِنُّ الْقُلُوبُ
Verily, in the remembrance of Allah do hearts find rest
and surely, He is worthy of it.
(Tafseer-Ibn-Katheer)
Thank you to Abu Why for the translation
If there is another world, he lives in bliss
If not another, he made the most of this
*tw* Baby and Child Memorial Quotes
So small, so sweet, so soon
Nothing will ever change the fact that you made me a mum/mommy/granny etc
No jewel is as perfect as the innocence of childhood
Blossomed on earth to bloom in Heaven
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