Top 59 Quotes About A Loved One Dying
#1. 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
#2. There is absolutely no way someone cannot be affected, or cannnot learn vital lessons by being forced to dwell in the margins of a hindering repose as the one loved by so very few.
Dying and Loving It
Milkweed L. Augustine
#3. Time doesn't heal all wounds. We both know that's bullshit; it comes from people who have nothing comforting or original to say.
Adam Silvera
#4. Dry fingers of decaying branches protruded upward, above what was left of the canopy of green. They rattled like skeletal bones, grasping for a final breath from the last silvery clouds of evening that slowly drifted by.
K. Farrell St. Germain
#5. 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
#6. I believe it's imperative to bring the light of support and knowledge to patients and families when death is approaching.
Lisa J. Shultz
#7. While death is sadly inevitable, our grief will soon pass like a swallowed penny through one's bowels.
Painful change just takes time.
Jessica Watts
#8. Death descended like a theatrical storm over the Drakensberg Mountains, stranding me while it ran its course.
B.G. Bowers
#9. The train blows, just when I was forgetting. Forgetting that I am here alone. And I wonder if those cars got held up by its passing, just as I have yours.
Kellie Elmore
#11. But he drank a lot. When love dies, he told me, there are no survivors.
Eion Colfer
#12. Regardless of how many people I surrounded myself with, no matter how many friends and family I loved and was loved by in return, I was alone at the moment of being born and at the moment of dying. Nobody came with you and nobody went with you. It was a journey of one.
Karen Marie Moning
#13. As we witness the death of departed souls, other people will observe our departure from the world.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#14. Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.
V.C. Andrews
#15. It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.
Dean Koontz
#17. I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.
Mitch Albom
#18. It's not that people don't know when they'll die. It's that they don't seem to know they'll die.
Raheel Farooq
#19. If the push towards life sustaining technology were balanced with options for comfort care in both medical school training and the healthcare culture, more people would have the chance to transition to death with dignity and grace.
Lisa J. Shultz
#21. Dying is nothing to fear. It can be the most wonderful experience of your life. It all depends on how you've lived.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#23. Death wasn't a movie where the pretty star faded away with a touch of pale makeup and every hair in place.
Soheir Khashoggi
#24. And a funeral, I found out, is like a wedding in reverse, with less time to plan.
J. Lincoln Fenn
#26. Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room.
Joanna Lumley
#27. Then she saw a star fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. "Someone is dying," thought the little girl, for her old grandmother, the only one who had ever loved her, and who was now dead, had told her that when a star falls, a soul was going up to God.
Hans Christian Andersen
#28. The journey into death is such an important one that I believe each person deserves as much support as possible. The loved ones who decide to stay and vigil with the dying person receive, I believe, as much grace and blessing as the dying. It is truly a remarkable experience.
Megory Anderson
#29. A carpenter is hired- a roof repaired, a porch built. Everything that can be fixed. June, July, August. Everyday we hear their laughter. I think of the painting by van Gogh, the man in the chair. Everything wrong, and nowhere to go. His hands over his eyes.
Mary Oliver
#30. Nobody was ever really ready to turn off their mother's machine, no matter what they thought; to turn off the light of their childhood and walk away, just as if they were turning out a light and leaving a room.
Fannie Flagg
#31. The ticking of the clock has gotten so loud." - 74
Robin Romm
#32. 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
#33. Deep down a broken heart, all the sadness one can bear is misery.
Auliq Ice
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. Help me to understand, what my grief has prevented me from seeing - within.
Eleesha
#39. 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
#40. 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
#42. My heart felt withered, a neglected fruit that would never again sweeten, now that my love was dead.
Cheryl R Cowtan
#43. The news had split his heart in two. One side was filled with her memories and the other side would die with her.
A.A. Gupte
#44. Everyone for whom I would have cried has already died.
Kathryn Orzech
#45. 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
#47. May you find the strength and resolve today, to allow a deeper sense of healing to begin.
Eleesha
#48. Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.
Oliver North
#49. 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
#50. Let the pain & suffering of all that appears to be lost, be soothed, healed & comforted.
Eleesha
#52. He was dead.
No trace of pain, no sufferings, no victimization.
Prerna Varma
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. Two weeks. Everything you love, own, and cherish, can be gone, liquidated, and lost forever in two weeks. Give or take a day.
J. Lincoln Fenn
#57. Everyone wants to be the one to get the mattress pad ... We can do this. We all love to do. The more we can do, the less we have to sit and stare at trees and think about the transient nature of life. - 131
Robin Romm
#58. A dying girl.
A pining boy.
And a whole lot of robbed years.
A.A. Gupte
#59. When you lose someone untimely; all left is never ending guilt, fear, and pain.
Nikita Dudani
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