Quotes About Losing a Loved One

It’s never ending sorrow when you lose someone, no matter you lost them recently of even a long time before. But you know what the memories are the real thing which keeps us alive and if you have memories of someone then you literally love them. So read these quotes about losing a loved one and know the value of the memories.

• “Grief is itself a medicine.” – William Cowper
• “Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.” – From The Wonder Years
• “The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief – But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.” – Hillary Stanton Zunin
• “Although it’s difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, may looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow.” – Author unknown
• “You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.” – Old Chinese proverb
• “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal; love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – From a headstone in Ireland
• “No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear.” – C.S. Lewis
• “Grief is not a disorder, a disease or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.” – Earl Grollman
• “When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” – Author unknown
• “Nothing that grieves us can be called little; by the external laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.” – Mark Twain
• “There’s a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.” – Lou Reed
• “There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.” – Washington Irving
• “There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.” – Aeschylus
• “Tears are the silent language of grief.” – Voltaire
• “Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.” – Marcel Proust
• “There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• “Grief can’t be shared. Everyone carries it alone; his own burden in his own way.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• “Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
• “Given a choice between grief and nothing, I’d choose grief.” – William Faulkner
• “Grief changes shape, but it never ends.” – Keanu Reeves
• “If you’ve got to my age, you’ve probably had your heart broken many times.” – Emma Thompson
• “You don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.” – Nigella Lawson
• “Grief is like a moving river, it’s always changing.” – Michelle Williams
• “Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can.” – Alphonse de Lamartine
• “The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
• “Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live.” – Quintus Ennius
• “Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death.” – Julie Burchill
• “You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.” – Jan Gildwell
• “If tears could build a stairway, and memories a lane, I’d walk right up to Heaven and bring you home again.” – Author unknown
• “As long as I can I will look at this world for both of us.” – Sascha
• “When you are sorrowful look again in your heart.” – Kahlil Gibran
• “There should be a statute of limitation on grief.” – Jodi Picoult
• “Grieving is a necessary passage and a difficult transition to finally letting go of sorrow.” – Dodinsky
• “Tears have a wisdom all their own.” – F. Alexander Magoun
• “When someone you love dies, you lose her in pieces over time.” – John Irving
• “Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart.” – William Shakespeare
• “No farewell words were spoken, no time to say goodbye.” – Author unknown
• “I’m gone now, but I’m still very near.” – Mary M Green
• “There are three needs of the griever: to find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud, and to know that the words have been heard.” – Victoria Alexander
• “You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken.” – Anne Lamott
• “Tears water our growth.” – William Shakespeare
• “Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye?” – Author unknown
• “What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.” – Jewish proverb
• “Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down.” – Eskimo legend
• “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.” – Author unknown
• “Dying is nothing to fear.” – Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
• “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss.” – Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
• “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
• “You will not start healing from a loss until you make yourself open for the feeling of the loss.” – Mitch Albom
• “A man can love a woman to the depths and not even realize how deep he can love until the moment of separation.” – Khalil Gibran
• “Loss and grief is a burden but it is also a stabilizing force.” – Sarah Dessen
• “The love you gave to me I will cherish for the rest of my life.” – Mitch Albom
• “In our grief, we find that love does not perish.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• “To die is poignantly bitter, but the prospect of having to die before one has lived is intolerable.” – Ernest Becker
• “It is impossible that he should ever forget, the heart that has truly loved.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
• “Deep in our hearts each of us has this aching wound of grief which is sacred.” – John O’Donohue
• “If you know someone who lost someone dear to them, you can cry or smile.” – Dr. Seuss
• “They say love is a promise, and that love is a souvenir.” – John Lennon
• “In the end, we all die. It’s how we proceed to live that counts.” – Mitch Albom
• “In the places they used to be alive, you start discovering their echoes.” – John O’Donohue
• “If you look at all the doors you’re shutting, there are always more doors opening.” – Tom Stoppard
• “Extinguish, separate, part is all that the poets tell us about Heaven.” – Emily Dickinson
• “In this case, there is no cure to love but to love even more.” – Henry David Thoreau
• “If a man has a reason for living, he can put up with nearly any form of life.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
• “A lot of times we spend most of our efforts for the things that need least of our attention.” – A.A. Milne
• “The definition of memory is that every monument of the mind is here kept and preserved.” – Thomas Fuller
• “There is always hope at the end of the tunnel.” – Victor Hugo
• “In some cases, it is not about the ability to let go but to start all over again.” – Nicole Sobon
• “Pain is a badge of affection.” – Maya Angelou
• “Although I know you are passing from my life, you are not out of my life.” – Mitch Albom
• “Now you must argue with cyclones and pour yourself smaller breakfasts.” – C.S. Lewis
• “To die – thy beauty – unshrined, to live in hearts we leave behind, is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
• “The best thing to do about the dead is not to mourn for them but to thank them.” – Thornton Wilder
• “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost
• “Even if nothing can restore the now decaying moment of brightness…” – William Wordsworth
• “Both the expressions look so similar.” – *Leo Tolstoy
• “The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.” – Irving Berlin
• “Love, that one thing that when done will keep you alive even after you are gone.” – Mitch Albom
• “The biggest scary thing is what dies inside of us as we continue living.” – Norman Cousins
• “If we could only turn a blind eye to life and look merely on Beauty…” – Rainer Maria Rilke
• “Silent buildings are indeed articulate and their language is pain and loss.” – Voltaire
• “We do not remember days; we remember moments.” – Cesare Pavese
• “There is no greater grief than to be made to remember what happiness once was when we are suffering.” – Dante Alighieri
• “In the garden of memory, in the palace of dreams…” – Lewis Carroll
• “The darkest color will always fade away and light will return.” – Victor Hugo

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