Quotes About A Death Of A Loved One

#1. May you find the strength and resolve today, to allow a deeper sense of healing to begin.

Eleesha

#2. If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one.

Eleanor Clift

#3. Imagine how titanic an echo chamber this great city would seem without the noise of eve none of mine. A huge bronze bell deprived of one hidden small iron clapper, its sole reason for being, its single means of song.

Allan Gurganus

#4. But now the other half of "us" was gone and, lying there in my shadowy room, I'd be struck with this realization that I had no clue how to be just me again.

Jennifer Brown

#5. I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy was peacefully released today.'
It is one of the mysteries of our nature that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live.

Mark Twain

#6. If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

Norman Cousins

#7. Think of him still as the same, I say, He is not dead, he is just - away.

James Whitcomb Riley

#8. If you genuinely believe that only the death of a loved one can motivate a human being to take up a cause ... then get your pathetic, cynical ass out of my way so I can do my job!

Mark Waid

#9. I loved and protected my own children like a fierce mama bear, but one of them died anyway. It was a dark day when I realized that part of my responsibility in Casey's death was that I did not love all the children of the world in that same real, not abstract, way.

Cindy Sheehan

#10. Because it was all I wanted to fucking know. It was all I wanted to know in this fucking world: where did the beautiful boys go? Where did the beautiful boys go? Where the hell did they go?

Brendan Cowell

#11. Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.

Oliver North

#12. How one deals with the death of a loved one is a highly personalized affair. Some people weep for days; others take a hike in the woods or count rosary beads.

Douglas Brinkley

#13. When people die,' she said softly, 'It doesn't necessarily mean you're ready to give them up.

C.A. Belmond

#14. If any reader has lost a loved one or is afraid of death, modern physics says: 'Be comforted, you and they shall live again.'

Frank Tipler

#15. Death is really a matter of perspective. So many people say "sorry for your loss" when a special one dies, but I don't see it as a loss. You don't lose the person at all, you gain a guardian angel that will stay with you and watch over you and their loved ones for life.

Tanya Masse

#16. They say that a part of you dies when a special Loved One passes away ... I disagree ... I say a part of you lives with your Loved One on the other side.

Daniel Yanez

#17. The ticking of the clock has gotten so loud." - 74

Robin Romm

#18. I was 'led' to read The Shack by Wm Paul Young after the sudden & unexpected death of my fiance', Marina DeAngelo in July of 2012. It helped me as it has millions of people with the trauma and grief associated with the great personal loss of a loved one."

~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#19. Why do they lie?" she asked herself aloud. "They say time makes losing someone you loved easier to deal with, but it only makes it worse.

Rebecca McNutt

#20. 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

#21. Why shouldn't the living cords which lace our being together flick softly against a loved one in the very moment of their unraveling?...Sometimes, all the miles between are as nothing, sometimes, they are narrowed to the little silence between the beats of a heart.

Colleen McCullough

#22. Birthdays;They never cease to exist, and like birthdays you will never cease to exist in my heart

Xela Ffonrims

#23. The death of a loved one may be many things, but work is certainly one of them. She

Stephen King

#24. The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#25. Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they
know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence.

George Eliot

#26. You're too damn beautiful for your own good.Hell,you're too damn beautiful for my own good

Caisey Quinn

#27. I wish he had let you all die

Madeline Miller

#28. We are apart so that I will know the joy of being with you again. Take care of yourself, wherever you are. Take care of yourself, wherever you are.

Eden Robinson

#29. They should make earplugs for people who are grieving, so we don't have to hear the stupid things people say, but I'd look like a dork in them. -Corinna

Carole Geithner

#30. When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn't want to forget ... So I realize, that if it's hard for me, how much harder it must be for you.

Katherine Paterson

#31. The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.

J. D. Hayworth

#32. We're not made to say goodbye. God didn't make us that way. We're eternal beings meant to live with him and those we love forever. So when we have to part with a loved one for a while because of death, it hurts.

Lynette Eason

#33. Tears are another river that takes us home. We become alive with tears. There isn't a chance to return to sleep when we are weeping.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

#34. A paradigm shift of viewing palliative care or hospice as a gift instead of seeing it as giving up has the potential to change the way we experience advanced age.

Lisa J. Shultz

#35. Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
From an Irish headstone

Richard Puz

#36. My heart was oaken before you set it on fire. It will continue to smolder, long after the flame that ignited it has gone.

Natalia Marx

#37. One of life's most painful mysteries was that time moved on, with or without you. Those left behind loved and laughed and resumed living as if you'd never been at all.

Laura Frantz

#38. The afterlife mattered to me. Heaven and hell and reincarnation. As much as I wanted to know how Alaska had died, I wanted to know where she was now, if anywhere.

John Green

#39. Even if you are alive somewhere, the absence of the other person who used to be there beside you obliterates your presence. Everything in the room, even the stars in the sky, can disappear in a second, changing one scene for another, just like in a dream.

Hwang Sok-yong

#40. That day had changed him. It had changed the entire village. Shaken by the death of a boy they had loved, each person had found ways to be more worthy of the sacrifice he had made. They had become kinder, more careful, more attentive to one another.

Lois Lowry

#41. He is gone and all we have is this world, here and now.

Alice Hoffman

#42. What attention would death pay to his pathetic voice? He was powerless without her.

Ted Dekker

#43. He was dead.
No trace of pain, no sufferings, no victimization.

Prerna Varma

#44. All of us have parents. Generations pass. We are not unique. Now it is our family's turn.

Ralph Webster

#45. Pain, unless it is physical, was sold to you (by your culture).

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#46. One rational voice is dumb: over a grave
The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved.
Sad is Eros, builder of cities,
And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.

W. H. Auden

#47. Let the pain & suffering of all that appears to be lost, be soothed, healed & comforted.

Eleesha

#48. [after the death of a loved one] It is when there is nothing more to be done that the reality of the loss often hits with full force.

Judith Martin

#49. When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.

Madeline Miller

#50. But she wasn't around, and that's the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.

Mitch Albom

#51. I still loved Granny. It flowed out of my chest. With Granny gone, where would my love go?

Jessica Maria Tuccelli

#52. All those who die in the Lord, will rise in the resurrection day.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#53. I destroyed that doll, hoping the sacrifice would somehow reverse time and bring my father back. I was a mad scientist and an angry child.

Walter Mosley

#54. ... things such as losing a job, the death of a loved one, divorce, bankruptcy, illness. Once you have handled any of those things, you emerge a much stronger person.

Susan Jeffers

#55. When we grow older and begin to realize that our omnipotence is really not so omnipotent, that our strongest wishes are not powerful enough to make the impossible possible, the fear that we have contributed to the death of a loved one diminishes - and with it, the guilt.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#56. She remembered how she had felt cleaning out her father's clothes, wanting at once to hold on to every dirty handkerchief and musty page of sheet much, and yet wishing she were anywhere else on earth, free of it all.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#57. That's when I know they've never lost someone. If they had, they'd understand. That you always miss them. That the pain doesn't go. That life stops.

Debbie Howells

#58. The world didn't end with a whimper or a bang. Your life finished in complete silence. Gone in a blink. And then there was nothing.

F.K. Preston

#59. Macro-trading requires a high degree of skill, focus and repetition. Life events, such as birth, divorce, death of a loved one and other emotional highs and lows are obstacles to success in this specific field of finance.

Paul Tudor Jones

#60. You don't know how easy death is. It's - it's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever.

Eloisa James

#61. We sit in silence, drinking hot chocolate and contemplating the act that death is a monstrous affront to the living and shouldn't be allowed.

Anna Maxted

#62. LOVE IS LIKE A DESIGNER FASHION, ENJOY IT WHEN YOU HAVE IT. LET IT GO WHEN IT IS GONE BECAUSE A NEW ONE WILL COME.

Linda Alfiori

#63. Deep down a broken heart, all the sadness one can bear is misery.

Auliq Ice

#64. And now the birds were singing overhead, and there was a soft rustling in the undergrowth, and all the sounds of the forest that showed that life was still being lived blended with the souls of the dead in a woodland requiem.
The whole forest now sang for Granny Weatherwax.

Terry Pratchett

#65. Has your life ever been so messed up that you wondered how you would survive another day?

Alisa Mullen

#66. Death. It's around more than people realize. Because no one wants to talk about it or hear about it. It's too sad. Too painful. Too hard. The list of reasons is endless.

Jessica Sorensen

#67. Death is nothing but absence of physical presence

Mayank Sharma

#68. But peace is my heart: I know it is.

William Faulkner

#69. Death never pierces the heart so much as when it takes someone we love; cleaving the heart they held with their passing.

Brandon M. Herbert

#70. Two days after your death, in a dream you text me many times. I read the first of them. ME! And so are the living comforted.

Marion Coutts

#71. Should I rejoice in the inferiority of my fate?" - John Lockwood

Noorilhuda

#72. There is a stillness that accompanies the death of a loved one. Everything becomes quieter, but it's not just sound that is dimmed. Movement, action, perception, emotion - everything is distant and removed. Maybe

Penny Reid

#73. A four foot box, a foot for every year.

Seamus Heaney

#74. That is - your friend?"
"Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.

Madeline Miller

#75. Grief is NOT a mental illness or an emotional disorder. Anyone who tells you otherwise has never experienced it for themselves.

Rebecca McNutt

#76. It's not that I am not moved by these things, that I don't them in my life. But lately, their power has diminished. - 140

Robin Romm

#77. Everyone for whom I would have cried has already died.

Kathryn Orzech

#78. My heart felt withered, a neglected fruit that would never again sweeten, now that my love was dead.

Cheryl R Cowtan

#79. There is no new beginning. No second chance.
You turned to me and I wasn't there.
You are dead. If I had taken your call, you would be alive.
It's as blunt as that.
I'm sorry.

Rosamund Lupton

#80. I think about all the people I wish could die instead of you.

Colleen Hoover

#81. Death is the great incorruptible corruptor

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#82. He looked upon this verdant, blossoming spring, a spring Joanna would never see, he looked upon a field of brilliant blue flowers- the bluebells Joanna had so loved- and at that moment he'd willingly have bartered all his tomorrows for but one yesterday.

Sharon Kay Penman

#83. I wish I'd paid better attention. I didn't yet think of time as finite. I didn't fully appreciate the stories she told me until I became adult, and by then I had to make do with snippets pasted together, a film projected on the back of my mind.

Jessica Maria Tuccelli

#84. His absence seemed a solid thing, a burden I must carry in addition to my grief ... Yet I knew I would continue to live. Sometimes that knowledge seemed the worst part of my loss.

Robin Hobb

#85. Why do we as humans always tend to remember the worse things about people? We may know someone for many years, know them as vibrant and healthy, yet when they fall ill and pass away, we can only picture them at their sickest, as though they were born and lived their whole lives wearing a death mask.

K. Martin Beckner

#86. One is seldom unchanged by the death of those one loves. It gives me a deeper knowledge of them, and so of oneself in regard to them.

Elizabeth Goudge

#87. When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed.

Milan Kundera

#88. I should have known when I first saw that picture. For it is a very remarkable picture. It is the picture of a murderess painted by her victim-it is the picture of a girl watching her lover dies.

Agatha Christie

#89. We weep as we witness the dead of a loved one.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#90. 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

#91. Her death leaves me both depleted and emboldened. That's what tragedy does to you, I am learning. The sadness and wild freedom of it all impart a strange durability. I feel weathered and detached, tucking my head against the winds and trudging forward into life.

Claire Bidwell Smith

#92. Right away, death is word-eating.

Yann Martel

#93. Instead he looks over at her, his whole world, and realizes the passenger's side airbag didn't deploy.

Kelley York

#94. If one drops dead in the street, friends and loved ones are shocked, stricken, but a long lingering death loses all nobility and drama, while relatives and friends await the inevitable end in a succession of weary anti-climaxes.

Alanna Knight

#95. Help me to understand, what my grief has prevented me from seeing - within.

Eleesha

#96. No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

Billy Graham

#97. I always wondered what it must be like to lose a twin - if somehow Mary felt it like it was happening to her. If she felt physical pain.

Francesca Lia Block

#98. Every living thing dies, Art. That's why we cherish it while we have it. That's why we respect the decisions our loved ones make for themselves. That's why we love, and why we care, and why we hurt. Because everything dies.

Reilyn J. Hardy

#99. I don't want anyone else to understand it, because you only understand it when you have been welcomed into a club only the saddest people can enter. The cost of admission is the death of your loved one at the hands of someone else.

Dave Cullen

#100. There are things far worse than death, for when it comes to us it is final. What lies beyond it is a matter of faith in what we had hope for.

R. Alan Woods