Here are some quotes that may be helpful at the very least in helping you decide what you don’t want to say. I am very sorry for your loss.
How very softly you tip-toed into my world,
almost silently and only a moment you stayed.
But what an imprint your footprints have left upon my heart. – author unknown, “Footprints”
To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die. – Thomas Campbell
He who doesn’t fear death dies only once. ~Giovanni Falcone
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance. ~Marcel Proust
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love. ~Madame de Stael
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
Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. ~John Muir
“The death of a child is the single most traumatic event in medicine. To lose a child is to lose a piece of yourself.” ~ Dr. Burton Grebin
“There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.” ~ Dwight David Eisenhower
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
Love is stronger than death even though it can’t stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries it can’t separate people from love. It can’t take away our memories either. In the end, life is stronger than death. – unknown
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned. – Edna St. Vincent Millay
“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 forgive life, to be at peace.” ~ Oscar Wilde
“Love you forever, love you for always, as long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be”—used on children’s tombstones.
A thousand words can’t bring you back; I know because I have tried.
And neither can a million tears; I know, because I have cried.
You left behind my broken heart and happy memories too.
I never wanted memories, I only wanted you. – Author unknown
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. – Richard Bach
We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven. – Tryon Edwards
Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever. – Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross, “On Death and Dying,” 1969
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. – William Penn “Some Fruits of Solitude”
e who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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