You were more than my dad; you were my friend. I treasure everything you did for me and pay tribute to the man you were When you remember someone who’s passed away, it can feel like a piece of you has gone with them, too. 8. “I'll remember you. When I've forgotten all the rest. You to me were true. You to me were the best.” - Bob Dylan No matter how thoughts about your departed loved one make you feel, the memories will be with you forever. While memory does fade over time, some of our most cherished memories affect us for a lifetime. And that might be something you want to express in a card, a eulogy or speech, or on your loved one’s headstone. Saying “you’ll always be remembered” to someone who’s passed away can help you say goodbye to your loved one. At the same time, it can help you convey your feelings to other people who are grieving the same loss. This simple epitaph is an option if you want to speak to the headstone’s reader rather than directly to the departed. 19. “You touched my heart. You will live on in my dreams.”

When my children were very young, friends standing on the precipice of parenthood would ask me to reveal what it was like, what I could report from a country that was still exotic to them. I’d look through eyes rimmed red from sleep deprivation and utter some well-worn cliché. The drudgery of it all was easy enough to explain, I’d say, understandable even to someone who didn’t have children: You repeat a million little tasks in service of a tiny, ungrateful human being, and then the next day you have to do it all over again. You feel slightly obliterated by this. But—and here my eyes would widen as much as they could—it’s harder to convey the joy. Novels about parenting seem to agree; in book after book, raising children seems akin to living in a “penal colony of toy-straightening and carrot-steaming,” Hillary Kelly writes in an essay this week. What a relief, then—a joy, even—to discover a novel that tries to describe the other side of it. Boyt is both funny...and poignant...but never less than impeccably truthful, with a broad, oft breathtaking wisdomThis quote from one of Maya Angelou’s poems, When Great Trees Fall , expresses what it’s like to carry the memory of a loved one. The rest of the poem is often used to express feelings of missing a father or mother. 15. “Each happiness of yesterday is a memory for tomorrow.” And no disappointments: the same generous sympathy as I felt towards the writer, a gentle warmth is there at the heart of this novel of Ruth, Eleanor and Lily, mother, daughter, granddaughter. Men are, generally, out of focus figures on the outskirts that loom large for a few moments only to disappear again. Indeed, yes, these women are struggling, financially, emotionally, but the tone is neither earnest nor twee. Humour keeps everything in balance. Jean, for example. How could you not love Jean? Her husband Alan has left, this time for good. It had always been the spring when she'd discovered his affairs. Jean's doctor suggests a course of anti-depressants. Jean isn't keen. I suppose I'm more a cup of tea and a sit-down, get into bed with a good book kind of grin and bear it, gin and bear it person, two glasses of wine and a Camembert eaten straight from the box with a spoon when the chips are down. Not that I'm against pills. I just see them as a last resort. Something like that. Fine for others but not quite for me. Like bridge, perhaps. Or the tango. How could you not love Jean? Inspired by David Copperfield, Kingsolver crafts a 21st-century coming-of-age story set in America’s hard-pressed rural South. Helen Keller could have been talking about the memories of a loved one who’s passed away with this touching quote. 12. “As long as we live, they too will live; for they are now are a part of us; as we remember them.” - Jewish Prayer

Below are ten of our favorite quotes to use in a sympathy card. Feel free to adjust as appropriate for your situation. Also see the link below for many, many more ideas on what to write in your condolence card.Little things in everyday life can easily remind you of the one you’ve lost. 6. “Till memory fades and life departs, you live forever in our hearts.”

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One last way you might want to say, “You’ll always be remembered,” is by engraving a message on your loved one’s headstone. This is also known as an epitaph . Eleanor’s death—imagined, anticipated, feared—disquiets Loved and Missed from start to finish, particularly in Ruth’s memory of the night she discovers Eleanor in her bed, naked and barely breathing. After attempting to revive Eleanor herself, Ruth summons an ambulance, then watches paramedics resuscitate her daughter en route to the hospital: I was so much behind Ruth and urging them both to repair their bond but as life is, there is disappointment and I felt it so much. Susie Boyt has written this book with such depth of feeling and sensitivity. It is so expertly woven together I actually feel honoured to have been part of this books journey. A highly recommended read. Missing You: 22 Honest Quotes About Grief– Pithy quotes that help describe the ups and downs of the grieving process. This message lets the recipient know that you’ll remember their loved one as long as your memory lasts. 7. “It broke my heart to lose you, but you didn't go alone. Part of me went with you, where ever you may roam.”