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125 Quotes about Rest in Peace in 13 Categories

Are you looking for “Rest in Peace” quotes and sayings? Then you’re in the right place. We have collected a range of quotes here, from short and comforting quotes, to particularly loving and beautiful words to help you say goodbye to a loved one.

When someone you love is taken from you, it is as though you have lost your grip on life. You feel powerless, and the realization that you will never be able to speak to this person again can leave you feeling numb and hopeless.

Often there are many things left unsaid, until suddenly it is too late. Even with hindsight it can be difficult to find the right words.

Rest in Peace: Quotes for Loved Ones

Rest in Peace: Quotes for Loved Ones

In the following article you will find 125 quotes and sayings with which to wish your loved ones a peaceful rest, and that can help you work through your grief.

Use these quotes to say goodbye at a funeral, or write them in a letter that you could imagine yourself sending to heaven.

Here you’ll find quotes to say goodbye.

“Gone too soon”: Rest in Peace Quotes about the Final Goodbye

“Gone too soon”: Rest in Peace Quotes about the Final Goodbye

Death is an unavoidable part of the human experience, but that doesn’t make it any easier to understand. Many famous philosophers, poets and writers have tried to understand death, and wrote about their thoughts and feelings.

Perhaps these quotes can help you work through your grief, or help you to make sense of your feelings at a very difficult time. Some of them talk about the inevitability of death and its part in the circle of life, while others are about what might come after death.

  1. For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
    (Khalil Gibran, Lebanese-American poet, philosopher and painter, 1883-1931)
  2. Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
    (Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher, 365 B.C.-290 B.C.)
  3. The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
    (Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman philosopher, c. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.)
  4. Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
    (John Milton, English poet and intellectual, 1608-1674)
  5. Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
    (Honoré de Balzac, French novelist, 1799-1850)
  6. How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
    (George MacDonald, Scottish writer, 1824-1905)
  7. After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
    (Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher, 1788-1860)
  8. Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one’s heart; but death is a splendid thing – a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph.
    (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, 1856-1950)
  9. Live how we can, yet die we must.
    (William Shakespeare, English playwright, 1564-1616)
  10. Death – the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.
    (Walter Scott, Scottish poet, 1771-1832)

Death and RIP Quotes for Loved Ones

Death and RIP Quotes for Loved Ones

Losing a loved one is one of the most painful things we will experience. The person you loved is gone, and it is sad to think that you won’t talk to them or laugh with them ever again.

These beautiful quotes can help you to manage your grief. Many of them are about the importance of love – if you loved someone, then their memory will live on in you, and they will never truly be dead.

  1. Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
    (George Eliot, English writer, 1819-1880)
  2. 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, American engineer, 1840-1918)
  3. Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
    (Emily Dickinson, American poet, 1830-1886)
  4. Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.
    (Theodore Roosevelt, American president, 1858-1919)
  5. Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
    (Michelangelo, Italian sculptor, painter and poet, 1475-1564)
  6. To die will be an awfully big adventure.
    (Sir James Matthew Barrie, Scottish-British storyteller, 1860-1937)
  7. When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.
    (Unknown)
  8. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
    (Khalil Gibran, Lebanese-American poet, philosopher and painter, 1883-1931)
  9. ‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
    (Alfred Lord Tennyson, British poet, 1809-1892)
  10. Thou art but gone before,
    Whither the world must follow.
    (Ben Jonson, English author, 1572-1637)

“Rest in Peace my Friend”: RIP Quotes on a Sudden Death

“Rest in Peace my Friend”: RIP Quotes on a Sudden Death

It is a shock to lose a friend suddenly, especially if they were young. It feels unfair, and you wish you could bring them back and make more memories with them.

These quotes will help you say “Rest in Peace” to a much-loved friend. They describe the pain of losing someone who was so close to you, and remind you that your friend will always be with you in your heart and in your memories.

  1. A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
    (Gustave Flaubert, French novelist, 1821-1880)
  2. Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
    (Rabindranath Tagore, Indian poet, 1861-1941)
  3. The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
    (Robert Southey, English poet, 1774-1843)
  4. Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
    (George Orwell, English writer, 1903-1950)
  5. What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
    (Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman, 1813-1887)
  6. To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses.
    (Unknown)
  7. Not lost, but gone before.
    (Matthew Henry, British author, 1662-1714)
  8. The most beautiful thing a person can leave behind is that we smile when we remember them.
    (Unknown)
  9. The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
    (Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman philosopher, c. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.)
  10. On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend’s life also, in our own, to the world.
    (Henry David Thoreau, American philosopher, 1817-1862)

“Heaven Gained an Angel”: Rest in Peace Quotes for a Sister

“Heaven Gained an Angel”: Rest in Peace Quotes for a Sister

Losing a sister is like losing a best friend. She laughed with you, fought with you, and understood you better than anyone else. It can be hard to believe that someone who was always in your life is now gone.

Use one of these quotes to wish your wonderful sister a safe journey to heaven. They are especially suitable for a funeral speech or message.

  1. The years may pass but you will stay, as near and dear as yesterday.
    (Unknown)
  2. Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.
    (Euripides, Greek poet, 480-406 B.C.)
  3. When you lose someone you love, you gain an angel you know.
    (Unknown)
  4. Sister, you were like my mirror. We were like two parts of the same whole. Life won’t be the same without you. Rest in peace.
    (Unknown)
  5. Heaven gained an angel today. I miss you, sister.
    (Unknown)
  6. He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.
    (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
  7. Sisters are like guardian angels. I know you will be watching over me.
    (Unknown)
  8. Our family will never be the same without you. We will miss your smile every day. Rest in peace, my sister.
    (Unknown)
  9. Sister, you knew me better than anyone else. Life won’t be the same now that you’re gone. I hope we will meet again one day.
    (Unknown)

Loving RIP Quotes to Write as a Condolence Message

Loving RIP Quotes to Write as a Condolence Message

The quotes in this category are especially loving and affectionate. They are all about memories and sorrow. If you need an emotional quote when grieving, you can choose one of the ones listed here.

  1. Life has a time limit, but memories last forever.
    (Unknown)
  2. Blessed memory, you make past joys immortal!
    (Georg Schilling von Cannstatt, German knight of the order, 1490-1554)
  3. Those we love don’t go away,
    They walk beside us every day.
    Unseen, unheard, but always near,
    Still loved, still missed and very dear.
    (Unknown)
  4. Whoever loves and says goodbye lives to continue loving somewhere else.
    (Claude Anet, French writer, 1868-1931)
  5. Wherever a beautiful soul has been there is a trail of beautiful memories.
    (Unknown)
  6. Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.
    (Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet, 1914-1953)
  7. If tears could build a stairway,
    And memories a lane,
    I’d walk right up to Heaven
    And bring you home again.
    (Unknown)
  8. To live in hearts we leave behind
    is not to die.
    (Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet, 1777-1844)
  9. And, as she looked around, she saw how Death, the consoler,
    Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.
    (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet, 1807-1882)
  10. They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it.
    For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
    Death cannot kill what never dies.
    (William Penn, English theologian, 1644-1718)

Here you will find more sad quotes.

Rest in Peace Quotes for Grandmas and Grandpas

Rest in Peace Quotes for Grandmas and Grandpas

These quotes can be addressed to your Grandma or Grandpa when they have passed away. Grandparents are like parents, but not as strict and with more cake.

When they die, it is as though a massive hole has appeared in your heart. The quotes and sayings listed here talk about how love means important people live on in our hearts.

  1. Our dear dead did not die, they simply stopped being mortal.
    (Ottokar Kernstock, Austrian poet, 1848-1928)
  2. I will miss you terribly, but I know that where you are now, you are doing better. Rest in peace, I hope we will see each other again someday.
    (Unknown)
  3. Farewell is a part of life, but our memories will keep you alive. Rest in peace.
    (Unknown)
  4. There are people who we bury in the earth, but others, who we love especially tenderly, are buried in our hearts.
    (Honoré de Balzac, French novelist, 1799-1850)
  5. Death makes love immortal.
    (Helene Gräfin von Waldersee, German writer, 1850-1917)
  6. Our joy, our peace, our rest, the end of all our troubles is God alone. Happy are they who turn their hearts to him!
    (Saint Augustine of Hippo, Roman bishop, 354-430)
  7. When a family member dies, a piece of us dies with them. Look after yourself up there. Rest in peace, Grandma/Grandpa.
    (Unknown)
  8. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.
    (Leonardo da Vinci, Italian polymath and artist, 1452-1519)
  9. The gods conceal from those destined to live how sweet it is to die, that they may continue living.
    (Lucan, Roman poet, 39-65 AD)

“Rest in Peace, Dad”: Quotes for the Loss of a Father

“Rest in Peace, Dad”: Quotes for the Loss of a Father

When you lose your father, it is like losing a friend and guardian all in one. It can be hard to find the words to say “rest in peace” to someone who was so wise and protective.

These quotes can be addressed to your father as you say goodbye, or can help you to deal with your grief. They include proverbs and short beautiful poems, to give you beautiful words when you just can’t find your own.

  1. Death is the beginning of immortality.
    (Maximilien Robespierre, French lawyer, 1758-1794)
  2. You are gone now, and I am alone. I will miss you every single day that I have to be without you. Rest in peace, Papa.
    (Unknown)
  3. The last farewell creates something eternal.
    (Unknown)
  4. When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.
    (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet, 1807-1882)
  5. I can’t bring back the time we spent together, but thinking about it gives me the strength to go on.
    (Unknown)
  6. Death never takes a wise man by surprise; he is always ready to go.
    (Jean De La Fontaine, French writer, 1621-1695)
  7. It all felt so natural – the way we spoke together, contemplated together, laughed together. Everything felt so natural, but the end never could.
    (Unknown)
  8. Say not in grief ‘he is no more’ but in thankfulness that he was.
    (Hebrew proverb)
  9. How well he fell asleep!
    Like some proud river, widening toward the sea;
    Calmly and grandly, silently and deep,
    Life joined eternity.
    (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English writer, 1772-1834)

RIP Quotes for Moms in Heaven

RIP Quotes for Moms in Heaven

The loss of your mother is a devastating experience that can leave you feeling overwhelmed with grief. The bond between a mother and her child is one of the strongest relationships many of us will ever have.

The quotes in this section offer words of comfort and understanding, and remind you that you are not alone. There are also sayings and quotes that you could include in your goodbye message or speech to your beloved mother.

  1. Your mother’s death is the first sorrow you have to go through without her.
    (Unknown)
  2. You only truly learn what grief means when your own mother dies.
    (From Angola)
  3. A mom’s hug lasts long after she lets go.
    (Unknown)
  4. Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
    (Buddha, founder of Buddhism, 560 B.C.-483 B.C.)
  5. Sleep that no pain shall wake,
    Night that no morn shall break,
    Till joy shall overtake
    Her perfect peace.
    (Christina Rosetti, British poet, 1830-1894)
  6. I never truly learned what the words ‘I miss you’ meant until I reached for my mom’s hand and it wasn’t there.
    (Unknown)
  7. Motherhood: all love begins and ends there.
    (Robert Browning, English poet, 1812-1889)
  8. Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
    (Emily Dickinson, American poet, 1830-1886)
  9. But when the sun in all his state,
    Illumed the eastern skies,
    She passed through glory’s morning gate,
    And walked in Paradise.
    (James Aldrich, American editor, 1810-1856)
  10. Your legacy lives on in us, your loving family.
    (Unknown)

“Rest in peace, my Dog”: Quotes on the Loss of a Dog

“Rest in peace, my Dog”: Quotes on the Loss of a Dog

These “Rest in Peace” quotes can help you say goodbye to your beloved dog. Losing a pet is like losing a family member. Choose one of these quotes when you want to wish your loyal companion a safe journey to dog heaven.

  1. Tiny paws, but a huge loss! We will miss you so much. I hope you find peace, my love.
    (Unknown)
  2. Our last walk together was too short. You made my life so much richer. I will miss hearing you bark. Rest in peace, my friend.
    (Unknown)
  3. Now you are at the end of the rainbow bridge and I am at the beginning. I hope we will see each other again one day. Rest in peace and know that you will always be a part of me.
    (Unknown)
  4. You are no longer here with us, but you will live and play on in our hearts. Rest in peace, little friend.
    (Unknown)
  5. I hope that one day we will see each other again, and I will hear your lovely bark one more time. I miss you very much. Safe journey, my friend.
    (Unknown)
  6. It’s hard to accept that you are not here anymore. You were always by my side, and now I must learn how to live without you again. I miss you so much! Rest in peace, good boy.
    (Unknown)
  7. We will never forget you. You were a part of our family, and the whole family misses you very much. We hope you make lots of friends in dog heaven.
    (Unknown)
  8. You will be hunting for sticks up there now – and sadly, I cannot throw them anymore. I will miss you. Be good, and safe travels.
    (Unknown)
  9. Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
    (Anatole France, French storyteller and critic, 1844-1924)
  10. Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
    (Mark Twain, American writer, 1835-1910)

Here you will find more quotes about dogs.

Short Rest in Peace Quotes

Short Rest in Peace Quotes

You will find short quotes in this section. These “Rest in Peace” quotes are especially suitable for you if you are a person of few words. Use them if you can’t find the energy to write a long message or speak very much in your time of grief.

  1. Peace is liberty in tranquility.
    (Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator and statesman, 106-43 B.C.)
  2. You will always be in my heart.
    (Unknown)
  3. My heart and mind will always be with you.
    (Unknown)
  4. You are gone, but you will always be with me. Rest in peace.
    (Unknown)
  5. I will find my way back to you, I promise.
    (Unknown)
  6. We miss you very much – rest in peace.
    (Unknown)
  7. Without you, everything feels so quiet. We miss you endlessly.
    (Unknown)
  8. Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.
    (Luke 2:29)
  9. The loss is unmeasurable but so is the love left behind.
    (Unknown)
  10. Grief makes one hour ten.
    (William Shakespeare, English playwright, 1564-1616)

RIP Quotes about a Beautiful Soul Passed Away

RIP Quotes about a Beautiful Soul Passed Away

In the following section you will find beautiful quotes that you can use as “Rest in Peace” wishes. They are about gratitude and inner peace. This makes them perfect messages for a sympathy card, or wishes when you want to light a candle for a departed loved one.

  1. We will never tire of thinking of you, speaking of you, remembering you, dreaming of you.
    (Unknown)
  2. Living means being ready to die someday. Loving means being ready to say goodbye someday.
    (Unknown)
  3. It warms my heart to remember that we will see each other again one day. Rest in peace.
    (Unknown)
  4. And now in peace my soul shall part to heaven,
    Since I have set my friends at peace on earth.
    (William Shakespeare, English playwright, 1564-1616)
  5. For the spirit alone is immortal.
    (Edmund Husserl)
  6. Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
    (Unknown)
  7. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace.
    (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet, 1854-1900)
  8. Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.
    (Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer, 1850-1894)
  9. Although it’s difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, may looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow.
    (Unknown)
  10. The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief the closer is God.
    (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist, 1821-1881)

Comforting Funeral Quotes

Comforting Funeral Quotes

In this section you will find comforting words and “Rest in Peace” quotes that are especially suitable for grieving parents. The pain of burying someone whose death should have come long after your own is indescribable.

The quotes here can wish peace to the departed and give comfort to those left behind.

  1. The fruit of that righteousness will be peace;
    its effect will be quietness and confidence forever.
    My people will live in peaceful dwelling places,
    in secure homes,
    in undisturbed places of rest.
    (Isaiah 32:17-18)
  2. You were so young and had to go so soon. Destiny decided that God must take you from us so early. Suddenly you were no longer there. Your loss has deeply affected us, the time we had with you was wonderful. We know that you will always be with us. Goodbye.
    (Unknown)
  3. Rest in peace, my little angel. The world will be very dull without you. You will always be in our hearts.
    (Unknown)
  4. Living means saying goodbye, death means living forever.
    (Unknown)
  5. And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief.
    (William Cullen Bryant, American poet, 1794-1878)
  6. There is no footprint too small to leave an imprint on this world.
    (Unknown)
  7. O fairest flower; no sooner blown but blasted,
    Soft, silken primrose fading timelessly.
    (John Milton, English poet and intellectual, 1608-1674)
  8. Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted.
    (Matthew 5:4)
  9. When a child dies, you bury the child in your heart.
    (Korean proverb)

Hopeful Rest in Peace Quotes

Hopeful Rest in Peace Quotes

Here you will find “Rest in Peace” quotes that look with hope and confidence to the future, and a time when you will see your loved one again. They are about following your goodbye with the promise of a future reunion. If you want to say goodbye with hope, use one of these sayings.

  1. I believe that death is not the end – it’s just that dying is so difficult.
    (Unknown)
  2. The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
    (Charles Dickens, English writer, 1812-1870)
  3. At first I thought this was goodbye forever. But then I felt your soul in my heart, and I was happy.
    (Unknown)
  4. Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before,
    Advanced a stage or two upon that road
    Which you must travel in the steps they trod.
    (Aristophanes, Greek poet, 448-380 B.C.)
  5. There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.
    (Unknown)
  6. Never the spirit was born, the spirit shall cease to be never.
    (From the Bhagavad Gita)
  7. Some cry for the loss of a loved one, others smile because they know they’ll see them again.
    (Unknown)
  8. Who says that we shall pass, or the fame of us fade and die,
    While the living stars fulfil their round in the living sky?
    (W. E. Henley, English writer, 1849-1903)
  9. There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, and the pale ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre.
    (Propertius, Ancient poet, c. 50-16 B.C.)
  10. Goodbyes are not forever,
    Goodbyes are not the end;
    It simply means I’ll miss you
    Until we meet again.
    (Unknown)
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