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Quotes About Losing a Loved One
- Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream. – Euripides
- If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. – James O’Barr
- When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him. – Madeline Miller
- The death of a beloved is an amputation. – C. S. Lewis
- Death leaves a heartache no one can heal; love leaves a memory no one can steal. From an Irish headstone. – Richard Puz
- The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love. – Kristina McMorris
Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face – I know it’s an impossibility, but I cannot help myself. – Nicholas Sparks
You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair. – Eva Ibbotson
Those we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch. – Jack Thorne
For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms. – Lurlene McDaniel
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose; all that we deeply love becomes a part of us. – Helen Keller
I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day. – Mitch Albom
Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity. – Terri Guillemets
Sometimes, when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated. – Alphonse de Lamartine
Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you. – Ally Carter
It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, and a day to love them, but it takes an entire lifetime to forget them.
If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words they’re gone. They’ll come back. – Prince
Do not stand at my grave and cry. I am not there. I did not die.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome. – Isaac Asimov
The song is ended but the melody lingers on… – Irving Berlin
We never truly get over a loss, but we can move forward and evolve from it. – Elizabeth Berrien
Remember that people are only guests in your story – the same way you are only a guest in theirs – so make the chapters worth reading. – Lauren Klarfeld
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. – Dr. Seuss
If tears could build a stairway, and memories a lane, I’d walk right up to Heaven, and bring you home again.
Whoever said that loss gets easier with time was a liar. Here’s what really happens: The spaces between the times you miss them grow longer. Then, when you do remember to miss them again, it’s still with a stabbing pain to the heart. And you have guilt. Guilt because it’s been too long since you missed them last. – Kristin O’Donnell Tubb
People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and aching pain of the heart will “lessen as time passes,” but it isn’t true. Sorrow and loss are constant, but if we all had to go through our whole lives carrying them the whole time, we wouldn’t be able to stand it. The sadness would paralyze us. So, in the end we just pack it into bags and find somewhere to leave it. – Fredrik Backman
I am always saddened by the death of a good person. It is from this sadness that a feeling of gratitude emerges. I feel honored to have known them and blessed that their passing serves as a reminder to me that my time on this beautiful earth is limited and that I should seize the opportunity I have to forgive, share, explore, and love. I can think of no greater way to honor the deceased than to live this way. – Steve Maraboli
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
If you’re going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill
Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure. – Sue Grafton
Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained. – Jonathan Harnisch
It’s easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she’s never been anything but dead, than to miss her at all the places where she was alive. – John Scalzi
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
But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going into every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone. – Mitch Albom
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean. – David Searls
Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love. – Avis Corea
Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn’t magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning. – Carrie Jones
The only way to get over a death is by seeing it as a life completed, instead of a life interrupted.
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. – Rumi
To live in hearts, we leave behind is not to die. – Thomas Campbell
The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you’re faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking. – James Patterson
We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world – the company of those who have known suffering. – Helen Keller
The dead never truly die. They simply change form. – Suzy Kassem
Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place. – Sarah Dessen
Death is tough for the people left behind on earth. – Prateeksha Malik
The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you left behind want to stop living. – Fredrik Backman
When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail’s response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, my bursting heart must find vent at my pen. – David McCullough
It is the capacity to feel consuming grief and pain and despair that also allows me to embrace love and joy and beauty with my whole heart. I must let it all in. – Anna White
Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality. – Emily Dickinson
Tears are God’s gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow. – Rita Schiano
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.
The few certainties in our existences are pain, death and bereavement. – Jane Wilson-Howarth
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels; we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. – Anton Chekhov
When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.
I still loved Granny. It flowed out of my chest. With Granny gone, where would my love go? – Jessica Maria Tuccelli
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.
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved. – Iris Murdoch
Mother was comfort. Mother was home. A girl who lost her mother was suddenly a tiny boat on an angry ocean. Some boats eventually floated ashore. And some boats, like me, seemed to float farther and farther from land – Ruta Sepetys
Deep down inside we always seek for our departed loved ones – Munia Khan
Death wasn’t a movie where the pretty star faded away with a touch of pale makeup and every hair in place. – Soheir Khashoggi
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief…and unspeakable love. – Washington Irving
Grief is the ultimate unrequited love. However hard and long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels…. – Rosamund Lupton
We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love. – Anne L. de Stael
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. – Dante
Death – the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening. – Walter Scott
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. – William Penn
I wonder if my first breath was as soul-stirring to my mother as her last breath was to me. – Lisa Goich
Your end, which is endless, is as a snowflake dissolving in the pure air. – Zen Teaching
In the godforsaken, obscene quicksand of life, there is a deafening alleluia rising from the souls of those who weep, and of those who weep with those who weep. If you watch, you will see the hand of God putting the stars back in their skies one by one. – Ann Weems
Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all. – Laura Ingles Wilder
He died when he was only nineteen years old. I was still a baby at the time, so I didn’t remember him. Growing up, I’d always told myself that was lucky. Because you can’t miss someone you don’t remember. But the truth was, I did miss him. – Ernest Cline
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives. – Norman Cousins
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. – Kahlil Gibran
Almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. – Steve Jobs
Though we are terrorized by death, it’s not different from birth, it just happens – Bangambiki Habyarimana
All of us have parents. Generations pass. We are not unique. Now it is our family’s turn. – Ralph Webster
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. – George S. Patton Jr.
How do you go on knowing that you will never again – not ever, ever – see the person you have loved? How do you survive a single hour, a single minute, a single second of that knowledge? How do you hold yourself together? – Howard Jacobson
Say not ‘Good-night’ but in some brighter clime, bid me ‘Good-morning.’ –Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Life is not profound without its own tragedy. It humbles us. Sets the bar for our introspection. Keeps us from believing we are gods. Puts our egos in check. – Crystal Evans
Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something. – Jackson Brown Jr.
We’re built to move on. Someone dies, no matter how close you are to them, you move on. That helps in a lot of ways. – Jimmy Iovine
Perhaps they are not the 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.
May you find the strength and resolve today, to allow a deeper sense of healing to begin. – Eleesha
And yet I want to be human; I want to be thinking of him because then I feel he is alive somewhere, if only in my head. – Sally Green
I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me, but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss. – Rita Mae Brown
Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life. – Anne Roiphe
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. – Aeschylus
After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. – Albus Dumbledore
I wanted to kill someone, and I wanted to die, and I wanted to run as far and as fast as I could because she was never coming back. She had fallen off the face of the earth and she was never coming back. – Melissa Kantor
The sun can break through the darkest cloud; love can brighten the gloomiest day. – William Arthur Ward
The very worst part of grief is that you can’t control it. The best we can do is try to let ourselves feel it when it comes. And let it go when we can. – Grey’s Anatomy
Everyone for whom I would have cried has already died. – Kathryn Orzech
The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives. – Rob Liano
