Until We Meet Again—75 Beautiful Rest in Peace Quotes and Messages To Help You Through Your Grief
By Michelle Parkerton,
5 hours ago
When you lose someone that you love, the pain is immeasurable and leaves you with a hollow feeling deep inside your soul that you can’t ever imagine being filled again. It may be especially hard to express just how much that person meant to you during your time of grief . If you are mourning the loss of a loved one, these touching rest in peace quotes and messages may help you put to words what you are feeling.
These messages and quotes about rest in peace can be used if you are delivering a eulogy, in an Instagram post, or for a family newsletter. You can even write one of them in a sympathy card or note for someone else. There is no right or wrong way to experience grief, and there is certainly no timeline on when your period of mourning should be over. But we hope that these quotes and messages will uplift you a little bit and help you find something to say during a difficult time.
10. “Death is just another stage of life, although the one you kind of hope comes last.” — Robert Breault
11. “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.” — Rumi
12. “You will rest, and then at the end of the days you will rise to receive your allotted inheritance.” — Daniel 12:13
13. “When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.” — Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
14. “I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.” ― Mitch Albom, For One More Day
15. “Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.” ― Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time
16. “The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you left behind want to stop living.” — Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
17. “When you were born, you cried, and the world rejoiced. Live your life in a manner so that when you die the world cries, and you rejoice.” ― Native American Proverb
18. “People you love never die… Not completely. They live in your mind, the way they always lived inside you. You keep their light alive.” — Matt Haig, How to Stop Time
19. “Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.” — Rabindranath Tagore
21. “Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.” ― Nelson Mandela
22. “You embrace death because life doesn’t exist without it.” ― Dominic Riccitello
23. “Across the years I will walk with you, in deep green forests, on shores of sand and when our time on earth is through, in heaven too, you will have my hand!” — Robert Sexton, "The Promise"
24. “He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
25. “When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes, they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.” ― Chief Aupumut
26. “After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” — J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
27. “Like the ocean, life ebbs and flows with the occasional rip.” ― Kamil Ali, Profound Vers-A-Tales
28. “Death is only passing through God’s other door.” ― Edgar Cayce
29. “As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.” — Leonardo da Vinci
30. “What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.” — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
39. “The object is not to forget, but to remember to go on.” — Unknown
40. “As we go through the journey of life, we must remember that the impressions we leave behind will define who and what we are. They are just as individual as the paths we have chosen to walk. So, leave good impressions wherever you go.” — Dave Hedges
73. My heart hurts every time I think about you, but knowing you are in a better place brings me comfort to live on.
74. You may be gone, but you will live forever in our memories and in our hearts because you have given us a lifetime of memories filled with laughter, joy, and happiness. We love you and we wish you a peaceful sleep.
75. To say we will miss you doesn’t even scratch the surface of what we feel. No number of tears can express the pain we feel over losing. Thank you for the honor of sharing a lifetime with you
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