Quotes About A Loved One

#1. When you've lost a loved one, you realise how grateful you are for any help in those moments, and any scheme that tries to help families during that terrible time gets my backing.

Stephen Mangan

#2. Fears are all psychological. Being afraid of death, loss of a loved one and disfigurement are all powered by your mind, and that's very powerful stuff.

John Carpenter

#3. Grace was my best friend. I can't let anyone forget her. I'm sure you understand."
Mr. Farrow smiled, but the smile didn't quite reach his eyes. "Of course, it's easy to rewrite history when we lose a loved one, isn't it? Sometimes we only remember the things we want to remember.

Lisa Roecker

#4. One thing about Southern women, they were tough. No one said no and got away with it. Especially not when it came to a loved one.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#5. I'm of the opinion that it is always a kind and appropriate decision to get in touch with someone who's lost a loved one to remind them that you're thinking of them and have fond memories of the deceased.

Mallory Ortberg

#6. It is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.

Lemony Snicket

#7. No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.

Haruki Murakami

#8. Remember that although bodies may pass away, the energy that connects you to a loved one is everlasting and can always be felt when you're open to receiving it.

Doreen Virtue

#9. A loved one turns a date into a memory.

Saru Singhal

#10. Love could be immortalized. It could be remembered and written forever into the world, inscribed on some inanimate object. It could be wonderful words given by a loved one, or simple letters combined to show an unbroken bond." Alexis from "The Shoreline

Lindsay Chamberlin

#11. Sometimes you have to let go of a career you love, a beloved home, or a loved one. Take time to grieve a loss of this nature. If you find yourself disoriented, consider surrounding yourself with people who see your strengths, goodness, gifts, and talents. They will help you find your way.

Laura Staley

#12. Losing a loved one is never really "starting over." More like "continuing without.

Mitch Albom

#13. There was something about total loyalty, uncritical devotion, endless patience, perpetual forgiveness and the general inability to believe that a loved one could ever do anything wrong that, frankly, just gave him the creeps.

Joanne Harris

#14. What do you do when you lose a loved one too quickly? When you have no time to prepare before, suddenly, that soul is gone?

Mitch Albom

#15. The ability to break a loved one's heart is the essential contradiction in human relationships.

Amy Dickinson

#16. You didn't just lose a loved one. You lost your heart, your memories, your laughter, your brain and it even took your bones. Eventually, it all came back, but different. Rearranged.

Louise Penny

#17. I think that's how love works. Sometimes it means doing the washing up when it's not your mess, and sometimes it's driving to the airport three times in one week to pick up a loved one, and sometimes it's all unexpected bears and possible surprise giraffes.

Jenny Lawson

#18. I always thought that funerals were meant for the living to say good-bye to a loved one. I never would have guessed that it's actually the other way around.

Anthony Greer

#19. Memories were especially dear, when they were all you had left of a loved one to hold on to.

J.R. Ward

#20. Imagine trying to relive your worst break-up, your worst fight, the most painful death of a loved one, and just really relive it step by step, and bring it up and apply it to the scene you're in.

Eli Roth

#21. Most of us are naturally inclined to struggle against the restrictions our friends and family impose upon us, but if we are so unfortunate as to lose a loved one, what a difference then! Then the restriction becomes a sacred trust.

Susanna Clarke

#22. I believe that everyone can appreciate the right of a family to grieve the loss of a loved one in peace, regardless of anyone's position on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Dave Reichert

#23. To friends and family: Look beyond a bruise for signs of domestic abuse of a loved one. We

Janie McQueen

#24. When a loved one disappears, you continue to live with the accompaniment of that person. One has to find a balance between joy and sorrow.

Philippe Petit

#25. I don't understand you. You could have handed over the slave and been free. (Paden)
Freedom bought on the back of a loved one isn't worth shit. (Devyn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#26. Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

Jean De La Bruyere

#27. That's something like the sensation of losing someone. You are never in your life so alive, and so aware of being alive, yet so isolated and abandoned, as when a loved one is taken from you. The planet will move right through you like wind through stalks of grass.

Dennis Bock

#28. I am certain that I'm not the only one who would like to have a do-over on an interaction with a loved one.

Lisa J. Shultz

#29. Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks.

Les Brown

#30. Venice seems like a wonderful city in which to die a slow and alcoholic death, or to lose a loved one, or to lose the murder weapon with which the loved one was lost in the first place.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#31. You might be a redneck if you entire family has ever sat around waiting for a call from the governor to spare a loved one.

Jeff Foxworthy

#32. It takes courage, of course, to step out of the fray, as it takes courage to do anything that's necessary, whether tending to a loved one on her deathbed or turning away from that sugarcoated doughnut.

Pico Iyer

#33. It's important to honor your ancestors. Bringing in a piece of furniture or an object you've inherited from a loved one not only honors the person who has passed but also brings the warmth of happy memories into your home.

Jeffrey A. Wands

#34. Without guidance and support for patients and families approaching death, there may be unnecessary conflict, confusion, and trauma that linger long after the passing of a loved one.

Lisa J. Shultz

#35. We always emerge from the death of a loved one like a phoenix arising from its funeral pyre.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#36. Because the passage of time becomes molasses when dealing with the death of a loved one. A month. A year. Two years. All the same.

Anne Frasier

#37. The pain of losing a loved one by the horrible act of murder is not lessened by the horrible murder of another, not even when it is cloaked as 'justice' and state-sanctioned. It is only a delusion to believe that one's pain is ended by making someone else feel pain.

Antoinette Bosco

#38. The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one.

A. J. Jacobs

#39. I hope that the Senate acts quickly to pass this legislation so that Americans will no longer worry about having to sell the family farm or business to pay taxes after the death of a loved one.

Doc Hastings

#40. Loss, be it the death of a loved one, deteriorating health, lost dreams, or some kind of divine interruption . . . will usually include a measure of pain. Your positive attitude, perspective change, and faith are what will turn your wailing into praise and joyful dancing.

Cheryl Zelenka

#41. Piece by piece, I fed my wardrobe to the night wind, and flutteringly, like a loved one's ashes, the gray scraps were ferried off, to settle here, there, exactly where I would never know, in the dark heart of New York.

Sylvia Plath

#42. How many souls have failed to soar because they were suffocated in a loved one's worry?

Brendon Burchard

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Jack Canfield

#44. In the South, our lives kind of revolve around food and taking care of people with food. If someone was sick, or if they had had a baby, or if they had lost a loved one, or even if they lost a job, my momma was at their door with pie or a cake or something to help them feel better.

Kimberly Schlapman

#45. We discover, often too late to talk to him about it, an episode from his life that a loved one has concealed from you. Has he really hidden it from you? He has forgotten, or more likely, over time, he no longer thinks about it. Or, quite simply, he can't find the words.

Patrick Modiano

#46. I don't trust tragedies much. It's easy to make a person sad by showing him something tragic. We all recognize when sad things happen: someone dies, someone loses a loved one, young love is crushed. It's much harder to make a man laugh-what's funny to one person isn't funny to another.

Ilona Andrews

#47. Listening is among the most generous ways to give. When a loved one talks to us - whether their words appear to be deep or shallow - listen. For in some way, they are baring their souls.

Jan Karon

#48. A friend is a loved one who awakens your life in order to free the wild possibilities within you.

John O'Donohue

#49. At one time, due to the reluctance of cult groups to allow members to dialogue with their families and professionals about their involvement (or even to allow families access to a loved one) -"involuntary deprogramming" became the choice of some families as a last resort.

Rick Ross

#50. People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes,' he said. 'The first day is really hard but the next day is less hard and so forth, easier and easier the longer you go on. But instead it's like missing water. Every day, you notice the person's absence more.

Anne Tyler

#51. There are few experiences in life as painful and brutal as the failure of a small business. For a small business conceived and nurtured by its owner is like a living, breathing child. Its loss is no less traumatic than losing a loved one.

William Manchee

#52. Gave his life for another person, and especially a loved one, no doubt, worth it. It even noble!

Stephenie Meyer

#53. It's over 800 billion dollars that we have expended [in Iraq]. I believe that Iraq should pay us back for the money that we spent, and I believe that Iraq should pay the families that lost a loved one several million dollars per life, I think at minimum.

Michele Bachmann

#54. If you have ever lost a loved one, then you know exactly how it feels. And if you have not, then you cannot possibly imagine it.

Lemony Snicket

#55. I think losing a loved one must be a little like losing a leg. First there is the shock, then the anesthetic, and the painkillers; the attention of doctors and nurses, flowers and cards and visits from friends. But sooner or later you have to learn to walk without it.

Ruth Graham

#56. To be remembered in the heart of a loved one is to live forever

Marcus Sedgwick

#57. Expectation loiters in the DNA of every sentient being; when you tell yourself or a loved one, 'Don't get your hopes up,' you're fighting ancient genetic programming.

Martha Beck

#58. If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug - which is all the more reason to do so. It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other.

Walter Inglis Anderson

#59. In a loved one's beauty, there is solace, comfort in its presence, and the hope - no, the belief - the certainty that possession of so fine an ornament might be sustenance enough.

Mary McGarry Morris

#60. Being able to communicate with a loved one that you haven't talked to in a while because of some communication break makes their life and your life in a much better place.

John Paul DeJoria

#61. Conduct your life in such a way that, when your train breaks down in the eve of your years, you have a warm, dry car driven by a loved one - or a hired one, it matters not - to take you home.

David Mitchell

#62. The only honorable, desirable kind of fear that shouldn't be feared is the fear of harm on a loved one. It's the kind of fear that leads to self-sacrifice and the kind of fear where you would truly jump in front of a bus to save another.

Criss Jami

#63. I don't see anything immoral, unethical or illegal for a person in a democratic society to be able to spend their own money on the health care of themself or a loved one.

Brian Day

#64. We take life for granted, sleepwalking until a shattering event knocks us awake. Zen says, don't wait until the car accident, the cancer diagnosis, or the death of a loved one to get your priorities straight. Do it now.

Philip Toshio Sudo

#65. Thinking the loss of a loved one was unfortunate, ill timed, sad, or an accident is to miss the gift.

Mike Dooley

#66. Art must always remain earnest ... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one.

Arshile Gorky

#67. There are countless opportunities to comfort others, not only in the loss of a loved one, but also in the daily distress that so often creeps into our lives.

Billy Graham

#68. I am overachieving at aimlessness, I am a type-A, alpha-girl lollygagger, the leader of a gang of heartbroken kids, running wild across this lonely strip of amusements, each of us smarting from the betrayals of a loved one.

Gillian Flynn

#69. No family should have to endure the loss of a loved one at the hands of a previously convicted violent criminal.

Niecy Nash

#70. I grieve for every death.'It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one. I understand the anguish that some feel about the death that takes place.

George W. Bush

#71. When you lose a loved one, you come to these crossroads. You can take the path that leads you down the aisle of sadness, or you can say, 'I'm never going to let this person's memory die. I'm going to make sure everything they worked for continues.'

Bindi Irwin

#72. 2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to develop any friendship...whether with a loved one or with God Himself.

James C. Dobson

#73. Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil.

Emo Philips

#74. My reward is just to be a better man. You're so close to losing a loved one ... the ultimate goal is to be a better daddy, a better son, a better teammate.

Jermaine O'Neal

#75. It's ok sometimes, to let go the rule of who is right and who is wrong, when it comes to bringing a smile back on the face of a loved one.

Arti Honrao

#76. Today, befriend a stranger, or if you feel up to more of a challenge, befriend a loved one.

Robert Breault

#77. There is no music more powerful than hip-hop. No other music so purely demands an instant affirmative on such a global scale. When the beat drops, people nod their heads, "yes," in the same way that they would in conversation with a loved one, a parent, professor, or minister.

Saul Williams

#78. 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

#79. The red tape for family members who want to speak to a loved one is a reality, ... The warehousing of prisoners is a reality ... All of this needs to be looked at, not just medical care.

Christopher Bullock

#80. There are places I cannot visit. Places of unbearable sadness, grief, mourning. They say places are made by people. I say places are defined by the memories they conjure - the lunge of a curse, a shared and shattered history, a loved one drowned and lost in the ocean of forgetting.

Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

#81. Everything belonging to a loved one is precious.

Beaumarchais

#82. It was during that time he made me realize the scariest part about death, about being left behind - nothing else freezes after losing a loved one besides you.

Jennifer Snyder

#83. 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

#84. 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

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

Stephen King

#86. I've lost many, many friends through natural causes, through alcohol, through drugs, through AIDS. And every time I lose a friend or a loved one, it reminds me how great life is.

Patti Smith

#87. 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

#88. Beauty puts a face on God. When we gaze at nature, at a loved one, at a work of art, our soul immediately recognizes it and is drawn to the face of God.

Margaret Brownley

#89. Time cannot destroy it. I am that love - time cannot touch me. Time but changes the form. Somewhere in some time it will return. When you least expect it, the face of a loved one reappears. Look beyond that face and you will see me.

Christopher Pike

#90. Hardworking men and women deserve not only job security, but also a paycheck when they need to take time off to care for a loved one.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#91. A loved one from us has gone, A voice we love is stilled. A place is vacant in our home, Which never will be filled. Estelle Woodhouse, 1898-1987

Jan Karon

#92. My family understands the pain of struggling with a loved one who's suffering from a blood-related cancer, and we seek to support those who are working to find a cure.

Nadia Bjorlin

#93. It was one lesson he never forgot.You don't sit back when you or a loved one is being assaulted.And you don't act like the goverment with their "proportional responses" and all that nonsense.If someone hurts you,mercy and pity must be put aside,You eliminate the enemy.You scorch the earth.

Harlan Coben

#94. Leaving for the night, it came to me. What I should have told her. Life goes on - that's what I should have said. That's what you say to people when a loved one dies. But, thinking it over, I was glad I didn't. Because maybe that's what she was afraid of.

Stephen King

#95. Accepting the loss of a loved one is difficult. But reconciling with the living is just as important.

Edie Claire

#96. Don't give your loved one a flower, because it too has a loved one! Let the flowers live!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#97. I had lived a life, I had dreamt of, but I have lost a loved one." Ashwin

Shaikh Ashraf

#98. When a loved one passes, there are mixed emotions, and a thirst to live one's own life more deeply can certainly be among them.

Salli Richardson

#99. 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

#100. Fear drives us to do many things in our lives. For me, the fear of losing a loved one, and all those terrifying thoughts of what it's like to be left behind and feel alone, drove me to conceive

Cecelia Ahern