Ecstasy is often fleeting, but grief is eternal; losing someone dearest to you is catastrophic. 

While condolences are nearly futile, a eulogy isn’t. Bid your close family member goodbye with funeral flowers, a sympathy card, a simple prayer, and a heartfelt message. Remind yourself and your dad why he was–and will always be–your support system by cherishing the fond memories you have curated.

Purchasing funeral flowers is tedious, but writing heartfelt condolences is nearly soul-crushing. So, to help you out with this, here are a few examples and sample templates.

1. Example of a Funeral Flowers Card

You could jot down anything you wish for, but it is always better to bid farewell to your loved one with a special message.

Depending on whether you’re a quotes person or simply a quick message kind of someone, here are a few funeral flower message templates for you.

1.1. A Plain Message

“I wish I could wrap my arms around you and tell you how much I miss you. I don’t want to accuse you, but you shouldn’t have left me, dear Dad. Stay happy wherever you are, sleep peacefully, and keep guiding me throughout the rest of my life; love you.”

1.2. A Simple Quote

“A thousand miles cannot keep us apart because my heart is with you, and yours is with me.”

1.3. Combination of a Quote and Message

“In French, you don’t say ‘I miss you.’ You say ‘Tu me manques,’ which is closer to ‘You are missing from me.’” 

Your passing away plucked my heart out. But I am so glad I’m your daughter, my hero. I know you fought and won a trip to God’s heaven; enjoy it and miss me like I’m missing you.

2. A List of Quotes to Write on a Funeral Flowers Card

Utilize this comprehensive list of quotes to express your heartfelt gratitude and grief. Celebrate your bond with an optimistic quote or express your strength with bereavement messages.

2.1. Quotes Celebrating Eternity

Here is a list of quotes for you to celebrate eternity and loving memory of your fantastic person:

1. “Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.” – Eskimo Proverb
2. “The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.” – Irving Berlin
3. “The soul takes flight to a world that is unseen, but eternal.” – Victor Hugo
4. “You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” – Desmond Tutu
5. “Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.” – Germaine de Staël
6. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Brontë
7. “Eternity is not something that begins after you’re dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.” – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
8. “The timeless in you is aware of life’s timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.” – Kahlil Gibran
9. “Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.” – Henry Van Dyke
10. “Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.” – George Eliot
11. “In the garden of memory, in the palace of dreams… that is where you and I shall meet.” – Alice Through the Looking Glass
12. “Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass but about learning to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene
13. “The oak fought the wind and was broken; the willow bent when it must and survived.” – Robert Jordan
14. “Legends never die. They become a part of you.” – Rick Riordan
15. “If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.” – Claudia Adrienne Grandi

2.2. Motivational Quotes

While the loving memory of your particular person might bring heartache, it also brings peace in the difficult time. Strengthen yourself with these motivational quotes:

1. “The journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
2. “What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness.” – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
3. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
4. “The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” – Pierre Auguste Renoir
5. “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” – Willie Nelson
6. “Gratitude is the memory of the heart.” – Jean Baptiste Massieu
7. “People think a soulmate is your perfect fit, and everyone wants that. But a true soulmate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything holding you back, the person who brings you to your attention so you can change your life.” – Elizabeth Gilbert.
8. “You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.” – Bob Marley.
9. “The world breaks everyone, and afterwards, some are strong in the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway.
10. “Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. You will be increased when all is said and done.” – Joel Osteen.
11. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius.
12. “Out of difficulties grow miracles.” – Jean de La Bruyère
13. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou
14. “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
15. “The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.” – C.C. Scott

2.3. Quotes to Express Your Heartache

Finding the right words to express your heartache might not be the traditional way of jotting down funeral flower messages. But do not hesitate to break the norm and let your dad know about your feelings with these quotes:

1. “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-Exupéry
2. “To meet, to know, to love, and then to part is the sad tale of many a heart.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
3. “Grief is not a disorder, a disease, or a sign of weakness. The price you pay for love is an emotional, physical, and spiritual necessity. The only cure for grief is to grieve.” – Earl Grollman.
4. “The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!“ – Fyodor Dostoevsky
5. “The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ losing a loved one; you will learn to live with it. Moreover, you will heal and rebuild yourself around your loss.  Nor should you be the same, nor would you want to.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
6. “Tears are the silent language of grief.” – Voltaire.
7. “The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.” – Rob Liano
8. “The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe.
9. “In times of grief and sorrow, I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry, I cry; when you hurt, I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods of tears and despair and make it through the potholed streets of life.” – Nicholas Sparks
10. “Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.” – Roger de Bussy-Rabutin
11. “The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.” – Nicholas Sparks
12. “Missing someone and not being able to see them is the worst feeling ever.” – Nathanael Richmond
13. “The way to my heart was shattered when you left me, but I was glad because your memories were invulnerable, locked inside my heart.” – Anmol Rawat
14. “Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.” – Stephen King
15. “In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.” – Mignon McLaughlin

2.4. Quotes on Cherishing the Bond

Cherish your endless love towards your dad with some flowers and these simple words:

1. “Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.” – J. Michael Straczynski
2. “To the world, you may be one person, but to one person, you may be the world.” – Dr. Seuss
3. “He had a nature you could not help loving and a heart that was purer than gold.” – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
4. “What we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
5. “A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.” – Billy Graham.
6. “A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely.” – Emile Gaboriau.
7. “The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.” – Antoine François Prévost.
8. “Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, and singers of song.” – Pam Brown.
9. “The imprint of a father remains forever on the child’s life.” – Roy Lessin.
10. “The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or touched. They must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller.
11. “The memories we make with our family are everything,” said Candace Cameron Bure.
12. “In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.” – Friedrich Nietzsche.
13. “I am blessed to have many great things in my life – family, friends, and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.” – Lil’ Kim.
14. “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” – Maya Angelou.
15. “A soulmate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communicating and communing that take place between us were not the product of intentional efforts, but rather a divine grace.” – Thomas Moore.
16. “Remembering our loved ones is breathing life into their fading images, that we might once more see their faces and pass along a tearful “I miss you.” – Richelle E. Goodrich

2.5. Strength-Related Quotes

Use these couplets to strengthen yourself in these lonely times:

1. The greatest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.” – Thornton Wilder
2. “To weep is to make less the depth of grief.” – William Shakespeare
3. “It is not length of life, but depth of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. “Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.” – Lionel Hampton
5. “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” – Eckhart Tolle
6. “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” – Mark Twain
7. “The soul, which is eternal, neither gains nor loses.” – Leonardo da Vinci
8. “I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” – Woody Allen
9. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde.
10. “The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?“ – Edgar Allan Poe
11. “Strength does not come from the body. It comes from the will.” – Mahatma Gandhi.
12. “You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius.
13. “Courage doesn’t have the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” – Napoleon Bonaparte.
14. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi.
15. “The legend is alive, and it’s as real as any other way of approaching the world.” – Ayad Akhtar.
16. “It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” – Sir Edmund Hillary

2.6. Grief-Stricken Quotes

While you’re wishing your father to rest peacefully in God’s arms, express your grief on the condolence card attached to the funeral flowers with the help of these messages:

1. “Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart.” – Kay Knudsen
2. “There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.” – Ranata Suzuki
3. “The simple lack of you is more to me than others presence.” – Edward Thomas
4. “Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.” – Lamartine
5. “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” – A.A. Milne.
6. “A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.” – Miles Davis.
7. “A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure despite overwhelming obstacles.” – Christopher Reeve.
8. “What is a legend but the finest part of a story, that which has been made the most of?“ – Francois-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
9. “The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.” – Billy Graham.
10. “A hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove… but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.” – Forest Witcraft.
11. “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love and to let it come in.” – Morrie Schwartz.
12. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. “The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.” – Jodi Picoult.
14. “Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
15. “The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.” – Jennifer Aniston

3. Parting Words

Pair these quotes with any of the templates above to pair your floral tributes with heartfelt funeral flower messages.

There are countless other ways you could deploy to cherish your fond memories and celebrate the eternal love between you and your father.

Remember that he might not be physically present with you, but his blessings always camouflage you from trouble. Focus on short messages and pray that your dearly loved rest in peace.

Last Updated on February 1, 2024 by Ananya Sreen