What to write to remember someone who died

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. — Soren Kierkegaard

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach

Love has no age, no limit, and no death. — John Galsworthy

Every blade in the field, every leaf in the forest, lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up. — Henry David Thoreau

Then I heard a voice from heaven say, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them.” — Revelation 14:13

You gave me a forever within the numbered days. — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. — Clarence Budington Kelland

Grief is just love with no place to go. — Jamie Anderson

What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. — Helen Keller

I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains. — Anne Frank

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart. — Helen Keller

We are born of love; Love is our mother. — Rumi

Death ends a life, not a relationship. — Mitch Albom

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle

Time is a physician that heals every grief. — Diphilus

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. — John Taylor

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. — James O’Barr

It is the capacity to feel consuming grief and pain and despair that also allows me to embrace love and joy and beauty with my whole heart. I must let it all in. — Anna White

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

I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss. — Rita Mae Brown

You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly — that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp. — Anne Lamott

Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning. — Anna Quindlen

Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. — Kahlil Gibran

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. —Albert Einstein

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

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. — Maya Angelou

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. — Romans 6:23

God shall wipe all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. — Revelation 21: 4

Say not in grief that she is no more, but say in thankfulness that she was. — Hebrew proverb

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. — William Penn

Death cannot kill what never dies. — William Penn

Although our hearts hurt and mourn in humanly pain

The fact still remains the same

That Heaven Has Gained more Love

To sprinkle down from above

— Antonio Talbert

You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them. — Mahatma Gandhi

One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can. — Frederick Buechner

That best portion of a good man's life, his little nameless unrememberd acts of kindness and of love. — William Wordsworth

It’s always hard to lose somebody. It leaves a hole in your heart that never grows back. — Kevin Brooks

There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart. — Ghandi

Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean. — David Searls

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. — William Penn

Not long enough to hold his hand, this amazing person, this loving man. — Kelly Horn

What we have once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us. — Helen Keller

How very softly you tiptoed into our world, almost silently, only a moment you stayed. But what an imprint you footsteps have left upon our hearts. — Dorothy Ferguson

Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality. — Emily Dickinson

Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight. — Rossiter Worthington Raymond

Moments before our walk that afternoon; I realized the path ended too soon. — Kelly Horn

I cannot say and I will not say

That she is dead, she is just away.

With a cheery smile and a wave of hand

She has wandered into an unknown land;

And left us dreaming how very fair

Its needs must be, since she lingers there.

And you-oh you, who the wildest yearn

From the old-time step and the glad return-

Think of her faring on, as dear

In the love of there, as the love of here

Think of her still the same way, I say;