Beautiful Quotes for Headstones and Tombstones

A quick internet search for tombstone quotes will lead you to a multitude of websites about the 1993 western drama starring Val Kilmer and Kurt Russell. While I suppose that a few of the movie’s famous lines like, “Not me, I’m in my prime” or “I calculate that’s the end of this town” could foster a funny epitaph, sorry movie buffs, but this concludes our list of quotes from the famous film.

Instead, these beautiful quotes for tombstones embody an endearing love to the departed and offer peace and hope to the living. The headstone sayings and quotes for tombstones listed here are our choices for the best and most beautiful epitaph examples in recent time. We’ve included many references to current popular culture because we believe that a memorial tombstone should not be viewed as a boring relic from the past, but represent the modern time in which we live. A loving memory deserves a special tribute - we hope you find the perfect words for your loved one.

General Headstone Sayings

If love could have saved you, you would have lived forever.
In memories we find comfort, in love we find peace.
Gone from our sight but not from our hearts.
To live in the hearts of those we leave behind is never to die.
Too well loved to ever be forgotten.
The song has ended but the melody lingers on.
Step softly, a dream lies buried here.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning we will remember you.
Your love will light my way, your memory will forever be with me.
Death is only a shadow across the path to heaven.
In memory of a life so beautifully lived, love so deeply shared, and spirit so deeply missed.

Classic Headstone quotes

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven. - Henry Ward Beecher
God gives us love, something to love he lends us. - Alfred Tennyson
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground. - Oscar Wilde
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. - Thomas Moore
Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure. - Sir Oliver Lodge
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity. - John Milton
Beyond is the infinite morning of a day without tomorrow. - W.S. Abbot
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. - Dr. Seuss

Headstone Sayings for a Mother or Wife

Forever my wife, my love, my life.
A mother’s love lasts forever.
Her life was full of love, her heart filled with joy.
A wife's love is life's treasure.
A mother's love is a divine blessing.
In loving memory of a wife and mother like no other.
She will be forever cherished, loved, and remembered.
Her love, a symphony, now echoes through the ages.
Together in life, in love, and forever.
She loved deeply and left a legacy of grace.
Her light will shine eternally.

Headstone Sayings for a husband or father

Forever in our hearts and always our hero.
He guided us and leaves behind a legacy of strength.
A husband's love is earth’s most precious treasure.
We can still hear his laughter echoing through time.
A father's wisdom is a light that shines forever.
I find peace and comfort in remembering how it felt to be held in your arms.
My dear husband, my rock, my strength.
O Lord, I put him in thy hands.
He was the embodiment of strength and love.
To those who knew and loved him, his memory will never grow old.
Our father was a guiding light, a king without a crown.

Headstone Sayings for children

So small, so sweet, so soon.
Budded on earth to bloom in heaven.
Goodnight, my angel, time to close your eyes.
Rest easy, sweet child.