Hey I've looked here there and everywhere for a quote and have had no luck so I'm hoping somebody can help me out. My grandad passed away before I was born but I still miss him dearly and am looking to get a memorial tattoo for him however I cannot find a quote anywhere as all the ones I find involve memories and never forgetting somebody and seeing as I never met him sadly I dont have this. Any suggestions at all?

None of these is exactly what you want but they are as close as I could find. I share your experience of never having known two of my grandparents except through the memories of others. Good luck in your search.



Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell. ~Emily Dickinson, "Parting"


Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle
Everything I do is stitched with its color.
~W.S. Merwin, "Separation"



Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven. ~Tryon Edwards



You left, and my heart is a ceaseless sermon of loneliness. ~Jaesse Tyler


The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. ~Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

" I don't miss you and you alone, I miss you and me together."
Unknown


" There is one pain I often feel, which you will never know. It's caused by the absence of you."
Unknown

The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.
~Edward Thomas

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
~Lamartine

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Claudia Ghandi

Oft in the tranquil hour of night,
When stars illume the sky,
I gaze upon each orb of light,
And wish that thou wert by.
~George Linley

What shall I do with all the days and hours
That must be counted ere I see thy face?
How shall I charm the interval that lowers
Between this time and that sweet time of grace?
~Frances Anne Kemble