75 Rest In Peace Quotes And Messages

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 RIP messages and quotes 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.

75 Rest In Peace Quotes and Messages

Rest In Peace Quotes

“We’ll meet again. Don’t know where don’t know when, but I know we’ll meet again, some sunny day.” — Vera Lynn, “We’ll Meet Again”
“To lose someone you love is to alter your life forever.” — Jeanette Winterson
“A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” — Maya Angelou
“Life is pleasant, death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” — Isaac Ashimov
“There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.” — William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
“The two hardest things to say in life are hello for the first time and goodbye for the last.” — Moira Rogers
“Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death.” — Isaiah 57:2
“Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.” — George Eliot
“Death is just another stage of life, although the one you kind of hope comes last.” — Robert Breault
“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
“You will rest, and then at the end of the days you will rise to receive your allotted inheritance.” — Daniel 12:13
“When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.” — Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
“I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.” ― Mitch Albom, For One More Day
“Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.” ― Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time
“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
“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
“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
“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.” — Rabindranath Tagore
“The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.” ― Rob Liano RELATED: 75 Comforting Messages For Someone Who Has Lost a Parent
“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
“You embrace death because life doesn’t exist without it.” ― Dominic Riccitello
“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”
“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
“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
“After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” — J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
“Like the ocean, life ebbs and flows with the occasional rip.” ― Kamil Ali, Profound Vers-A-Tales
“Death is only passing through God’s other door.” ― Edgar Cayce
“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.” — Leonardo da Vinci
“What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.” — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“A thousand words won’t bring you back, I know because I’ve tried; neither will a thousand tears, I know because I’ve cried.” — Jessica Crowley
“I want to find a quiet place, to sit with you a while, to talk about the happy times, and hope that makes you smile.” — Susan Smith
“I’ll remember you hen I’ve forgotten all the rest. You to me were true. You to me were the best.” — Bob Dylan, “I’ll Remember You”
“To the world you may have just been one person, but to one person you may have been the world.” — Dr. Seuss
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” — Thomas Campbell
“When I am lonely, I think of you and all that you brought to my life. Your memory rests gently on my soul!" — Cindy Adkins
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” — Helen Keller
“The Remembrance of the good done by those we have loved is the only consolation when we have lost them.” — Demoustier
“The object is not to forget, but to remember to go on.” — Unknown
“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 RELATED: What to Write in a Pet Sympathy Card

Rest In Peace Messages

You were the most amazing person and light of my life. I will miss you more than words can say.
You have left some wonderful memories that will never fade from my heart.
I know you’re always there, in our hearts, watching over and guiding us. We miss you so much.
Too well loved to ever be forgotten.
Treasured in my heart you’ll stay, until we meet again someday.
You will forever stay alive in my memories and my heart.
Until we meet again.
With a broken heart and sadness in in my soul I miss you more every day.
I feel your presence even though you’re gone. You will be missed so much.
Your memory will never fade.
When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure. 52, It’s so hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember.
You were my world. I will cherish every second I spent with you.
May you touch dragonflies and stars, dance with fairies, and talk to the moon.
If tears could be a stairway and memories were a lane, we would right up to Heaven and bring you back again. RELATED: Online Grief Support Groups
I love you past the moon and beyond the stars.
Someone so special can never be forgotten; may your soul rest in peace.
The loss is immeasurable, but so is the love left behind.
I wish R.I.P. meant ‘Return If Possible.’ I will miss you.
You are missed beyond measure.
May your spirit soar even as you rest in peace.
My heart hurts every time I think about you.
As I whisper, “I miss you,” I believe somehow you can still hear me.
Goodbyes are not forever, and not the end; It simply means I’ll miss you until we meet again.
I know that your kind soul is in Paradise watching over us. Until we meet again.
Goodbye for now. Sleep well.
Your memory will forever live within me.
We loved him a lot, but God loves him more.
I keep wishing this is a dream and I’ll open my eyes and see you walk through the door. Wherever you are, may you find peace.
A thousand words can never bring you back, so may you rest in peace.
In the clouds, we will meet again.
Always on my mind; forever in my heart.
My heart hurts every time I think about you, but knowing you are in a better place brings me comfort to live on.
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.
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 Next, find some more comfort in these sad quotes and missing you quotes.