Quotes About Life And Death Of A Loved One

#1. 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

#2. As David Zucker watched the casket of his late wife being lowered into the ground, he thought the worst must surely be over and it was time to start the slow healing process to begin life anew.

Phil Wohl

#3. I believe it's imperative to bring the light of support and knowledge to patients and families when death is approaching.

Lisa J. Shultz

#4. There's only so much room for life and death
in our world. One must be traded for the other.

Will Bly

#5. Death descended like a theatrical storm over the Drakensberg Mountains, stranding me while it ran its course.

B.G. Bowers

#6. In health, in the bustle of living, it was easy to believe in heaven and a life to come. But when the blow fell, and those you loved passed into the great Silence, where you could not get at them, or they at you, then doubts, aching doubts took possession of one.

Henry Handel Richardson

#7. The greatest loss is the lost of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. Write your dreams down, toss them into the sea, and make a wish, Isabel. Life is too short to live with regrets, own today as if it was your last.

A.M. Willard

#9. As we witness the death of departed souls, other people will observe our departure from the world.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.

V.C. Andrews

#11. 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

#12. Memories is all that you have, which help you survive the storms and struggles of your daily life after you lose someone!

Nikita Dudani

#13. 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

#14. I guess we'll never know exactly what ... the reasons behind the losses we experience in this life. But being angry doesn't make them any less devastating. It only robs us of the happiness and love we can experience. Only forgiveness can set us free.

Christene Houston

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. Death occurs in unexpected times.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. 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

#19. Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.

Emil Cioran

#20. When it is time for you to say goodbye to a beloved animal friend, remember that while the physical interaction ceases, the soul connection you share is eternal and remains with you both forever.

Amy Miller

#21. Death was a smokescreen between Life and myself.

B.G. Bowers

#22. One day you will be the only one in the room not living.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

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

Kathryn Orzech

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. Some people walk into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts. Others walk into our lives and we want to leave footprints on their face!

Auliq Ice

#37. 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

#38. The creek was hers now and yet she felt nothing. It had been the longest walk of her life for no one was at the end waiting for her. She slept through winter. Missed Christmas and awoke to a New Year. She felt so lost. Until the first bluebells and ramsons colored the green-brown floor of her world.

Sarah Winman

#39. We would not wake up from this nightmare to find out it was someone's real life, and for once that someone wasn't just a poor unlucky nobody in a shack you could forget about. It was our life, the only one we were going to have.

Barbara Kingsolver

#40. The dead are never truly gone. They linger in our minds and hearts and torture us with a malice they were not capable of in life.

Courtney M. Privett

#41. 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

#42. [...] we all die, and the length of our life has been set before the earth was formed. Sometimes God takes the little ones to keep the eyes of the rest of the family on Heaven. They will never forget where this road leads if one of their own has already come to the end of it.

Susan Claire Potts

#43. I was her world, yes, and I was at that point we all reach where I was denying she was mine. I'd never quiet forgive myself for that.

Danny Wallace